DIY

    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 Kalinin

    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 Kalinin

    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….

    How to turn a broken LCD TV into a DIY LED light panel
    Aug 13, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    One of the things I love the most about DIY projects is that they can give a new life to the items that are destroyed…

    This photographer designed and 3D printed a massive 300mm extension tube for super macro magnification
    Aug 7, 2019 John Aldred

    3D printing has come such a long way in the last few years. As developments in printer design and software have progressed, it’s become a…

    How to make a DIY extension tube from a Pringles can
    Aug 7, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Macro lenses can be pretty expensive, but luckily, there are several ways to shoot macro photos on a budget. You can turn any lens into…