DIY
Using a Kitchen Timer To Create Panning Timelapse Movies
We have had a post before where we shoed how to use a canon G9 camera and a bunch of opensource photography software (mainly CHDK)…
Spill Control Diffusion Screens
The cardboard light tent is a constantly popular post here at DIYP, and no wonder it is one of the easiest ways for shoot a…
Homemade Camera Panoramic Head
The following post about creating a polycarbonate panoramic head was written by Barry Young. It is a slick design that uses semi-fixed drilled holes for…
Endlessly Power Your Flash Lights With A Flashlight
Photographer Matt Kenney came up with quite a clever way to provide external power to his battery operated strobe (Canon 430EXII). Instead of building a…
How To Take Photographs For Manuals
I am involved with a large project that needs photographs for their step-by-step instructions manual. The same regular lighting and placement challenges are there, but…
Paddy For Lightroom Adjusts Images Via Hotkeys, Midi Controllers and External Keyboards
If your photography workflow includes using Lightroom, you may wanna take a close look at Paddy For Lightroom an open source DIYish method of assigning…
Strobist Corner: Mount Your Hot Shoe Strobe On Big Modifiers
Photographer Paulo Rodrigues (Flickr) gave a nice tip on the DIYP Flickr pool. Problem: I have a ton of modifiers that I attach to my…
DIY PVC Table/Skater Dolly For Video Photography
If you’ve been following some of the video tutorials we’ve had here at DIYP, you probably noticed the skateboard dolly that was featured here a…
Shoot 3D with a Single Camera and Lens
In the past, we covered some nifty ways to create 3D images with a single camera. Or even with two cameras, or a 3D-printed invention….
Amazing Light Camera Crane Build Video
The following film by photographer Martin Roberts shows the construction of an aluminum and bearing based camera crane (similar to some designs we have featured…





































