DIY

    This photographer 3D printed his own “photo sniper” grip for his macro photography setup
    Nov 14, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    A few months ago, photographer Nick Sherlock shared with us his epic 3D printed 300mm long extension tube. Then he needed something to hold this…

    I built my own DIY timelapse slider that works a lot like the Slypod
    Nov 11, 2019 Tyler Gerritsen

    Note: As of August 26, 2019, the most incredible home-built camera rig award goes tomingul’s 8-Degree-Of-Freedom robot! It takes up an entire room and can be given…

    Here are five hilarious DIY rigs for filming on a tight budget
    Nov 1, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    How many times did you have a great idea for a video, but then you realized you don’t have the budget high enough to get…

    How to make your own DIY LED tube lights for video
    Oct 19, 2019 John Aldred

    We’ve all seen Eric Pare’s DIY light tubes for light painting, but these ones from Adam Rahn at DroiMedia are a little bit different. These…

    How to modify an Ikea clock to turn it into a red light darkroom timer
    Oct 1, 2019 John Aldred

    Although the darkroom isn’t quite as common as it once was, it seems to be gaining a resurgence of late. Every day I see people…

    This photographer turned an old watch into a wearable camera flash
    Sep 21, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    Iranian photographer Alireza Rostami has a true DIY spirit. He loves repurposing old and broken stuff and turning them into camera gadgets (or even into…

    How I made alternative film developers from peppermint and green tea extract
    Sep 10, 2019 Daniel Keating

    By now most everyone dabbling in analog photography has seen articles on the use of “Caffenol”, “Beerinol”, “Redwineol” where people have developed film in mixtures…

    How to convert almost any standard zoom lens into a macro lens
    Sep 2, 2019 Maximilian Simson

    Are you looking for an affordable but also electronic macro lens? Or maybe you have an old kit lens, that’s just sitting around, collecting dust…

    How to create realistic DIY sunstar overlays for landscape photos
    Aug 21, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    When you’re shooting landscapes in bright sunlight, a sunstar can be a really neat addition to your images. You won’t always capture it in-camera, and…

    How to make your own DIY mottled backdrops for a fraction of the cost of buying them
    Aug 14, 2019 Jake Hicks

    For those of us born in the 1970s and ’80s, this new phenomenon of mottled, cloudy backdrops appearing in modern portraits is an odd one….