DIY

How to make cheap DIY cable ties

Feb 15, 2018 Adam Rahn

I had seen some Think Tank Red Whips online earlier this year, and even though they weren’t very expensive to begin with, like most DIYers…



Make your own DIY kaleidoscopic lens filter for only $20

Feb 15, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

The kaleidoscopic effect can look mesmerizing in photos and videos. I tried achieving something like that with a prism, but photographer and videographer Travis Owens…



Upgrading a simple DIY PVC camera dolly with a motor and big wheels

Feb 12, 2018 John Aldred

Anybody who shoots video or timelapse knows that the key to getting great shots often involves camera movement. This is why sliders and dollies are…



How To Look Good On A Webcam or Vlog

Feb 10, 2018 JP Danko

If you’re a creative professional, chances are that you use a webcam for business. Whether it’s a client video conference, screen capture tutorial or your…



How to eliminate reverb when recording sound in an echoey room

Feb 9, 2018 John Aldred

Some of you might think this is some magic bullet post processing trick to remove reverb from audio files. But it’s not. No, the only…



Yet another DIY overhead camera rig – but this one’s for big sets

Feb 9, 2018 John Aldred

There must be at least 3 million different ways to mount an overhead camera rig. Seriously just look at how many we’ve already covered here…



How we built a mobile darkroom and a 16”x20” DIY camera

Feb 8, 2018 Natalia Barberis

PART 1 – The Camera Starting back in May of 2014, I finally put my first foot forward in the making of a 16×20 inch…



8 DIY photo filters you can easily make at home

Feb 5, 2018 John Aldred

The fascination with degrading the performance of our gear is interesting. On the one hand, why does a person spend thousands of dollars on equipment…



This photographer built her own DIY ultra large format camera from scratch

Jan 30, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Animation filmmaker and self-taught photographer Ursula Ferrara has made her own 16″ x 20″ camera entirely from scratch. She shares some images of the creating…



Flood your scene with smoke using these DIY smoke bombs

Jan 29, 2018 John Aldred

Fog and smoke can be a wonderfully creative tool for giving your photos and video footage some atmosphere. Both figuratively and literally. While it’s quite…