DIY
Build your own motorized custom camera slider from scratch for around $75
May 23, 2016
John Aldred
Camera sliders are one of the easiest ways to add interesting motion to your timelapse and video sequences, but many of the commercial options are…
How to make your own DIY filter holders for wide angle lenses
May 19, 2016
John Aldred
Ultra wide angle lenses are great, and if you’re a landscape shooter then you probably own at least one or two of them, but many…
Build your own instant camera with a Raspberry Pi and a thermal printer
May 17, 2016
John Aldred
The Raspberry Pi is amazing. Instant cameras are also amazing. So, it makes sense that somebody would eventually combine them, creating a Raspberry Pi powered…
How to make the perfect pinhole for your pinhole camera
Apr 26, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Over the years, we’ve shared more than a handful of tutorials on how to make your very own pinhole camera. What we haven’t shared is…
How to build your own overhead camera rig
Apr 20, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Whether on Youtube or elsewhere, we’ve all seen the overhead camera shot. While it might seem fairly straightforward, the process is actually quite a doozy…
Make a dead-simple DIY reflector with an emergency blanket and poster board
Apr 18, 2016
Gannon Burgett
One of the most basic tools every portrait photographer should have in their arsenal is a reflector. It can be used with natural light, in…
Top 5 light painting tools that you can make yourself
Apr 14, 2016
Jennifer Dowd
I know you are here for the how to beef, but first let me share the story of how I got into light painting. For…
How different flashlights impact on tube’s light Painting
Apr 12, 2016
Udi Tirosh
A while back we shared Eric Pare’s method of creating perfect lighting painting circles with $3.5 tube guards. Basically it involves sticking a flashlight at…
How To Make a DIY UV filter for 2 cents that actually works
Apr 11, 2016
Yonathan Russak
It just so turned out that I am surrounded with really talented body paint artists. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I…
Create an entire new keyboard of shortcodes with this hack
Apr 10, 2016
Udi Tirosh
If you are editing a lot of videos, you know that shortcodes and hot-keys are essential for fast editing. We actually shared a tip on…