DIY

    Studio Lighting – Great Way To Build a Ringlight
    Oct 13, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    Reader Bankara has followed up on the cheap ringlight article with another very affordable ringlight. Not as cheap as the one you can get from…

    Studio Lighting – The Cheapest Ring Light Ever
    Oct 9, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    Reader B.Stevens has a cool idea for the cheapest most versatile ring light ever (now we have shown some ringlights before, but not that easy…

    Studio Lighting – Lighting Diagrams, Planning and Explaining
    Oct 6, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    Sometimes you want to make a diagram of your photo session. (OK, sometimes you don’t, but sometimes you do). I, for example, am going to…

    Lighting – High Key and Low Key
    Oct 4, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    After discussing contrast at a very top level view, I would like to introduce two twins, closely related to contrast – High Key and Low…

    Studio Lighting – Homemade Gridspot
    Oct 1, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    Gridspot (or grid) is a studio accessory that you can attach to your flash. When the flash fires through the grid, the spread of the…

    Recycling Project – Trigger Your Camera With A Mouse
    Sep 25, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    Remember those old mice you use to have before computer mice became monsters with twenty five buttons, side buttons, rollers, sliders and what not. Dave…

    The Standard 3-Point Lighting Technique
    Sep 22, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    One of the oldest lighting techniques in the book is called “Three Point Lighting”. It is vastly used in studio photography and by snobby fashion…

    DIY built-in pop-up flash diffuser (soft screen)
    Sep 22, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    Why spend a fortune on an on-camera softscreen diffuser? (OK, 9 dollars are hardly a fortune, yet…). This guest post by Huy Hoang shows you…

    Studio lighting – Homemade Softbox Ring For SB or Flash Speedlight
    Sep 15, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    Tim from Chicago was using translucent umbrellas to get diffusion out of his flash speedlights. This was his home grown studio. When he switched to…

    DIY – Using Clamps As Flash Light Stands
    Sep 7, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    As part of the light stand frenzy that’s been going on here, I thought I’d introduce you to another way of placing a flash on…