DIY

    How to Take The Perfect Jump Shot With An Open Source Photo Booth
    Oct 8, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    Taking a perfectly timed photograph of a jumping person is not trivial. You both count, 3…2..1…jump! Wait, I should have jumped on “1” or jumped…

    DIY Builds That Go Sideways – Wile E. Coyote Style
    Sep 26, 2013 JP Danko

    Before photography became my hobby of choice and eventually a career, I spent a lot of time building remote control boats, planes and cars.  It…

    Faking an ND Filter for Long Exposure Photography
    Sep 24, 2013 Guest Author

    So, I’ve had this idea bouncing around in my head for a bit, and figured it might help me to get off my ass and…

    Point & Shoot Camera Built With Raspberry Pi
    Sep 18, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    We knew this day was coming where a complete home brewed camera would become live. Maker James Wolf just completed a project that makes a…

    How To Build A Slo-Mo Photobooth With $32,900 Worth Of Gear
    Sep 15, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    About a week ago we shared an epic slo-mo video from a wedding photographed by Super Frog Saves Tokyo. The video was above all, fun….

    How To Build A Giga Pixel Scanner
    Sep 12, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    Large high resolution scans are kind of an art form, and definitely not easy from the technical aspect. Photographer/maker Charlie Romer took on creating a…

    Clever Way To Store Multiple Seamless Paper Backdrops
    Sep 12, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    One of the more annoying things to store is seamless paper backdrops. They are big, bulky and you can’t lay them on the flow because…

    How To Properly Put Dates In Photo Files Names
    Sep 9, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    do your photo files have dates in them? They probably should so you can easily track them and know when they were taken even if…

    Quick Tip: Free-lensing SLR Lenses With Micro 4/3 Bodies
    Sep 7, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    Here is a great free-lensing tip courtesy of DIYP reader Timothy Blair. In a nutshell, free-lensing is creating a tilt/shift lens by separating a lens…

    Building A DIY Slide Light
    Sep 1, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    It is no secret that we have gotten a bit Slide Crazy ever since we kicked off the Light Blaster. I mean we’ve always loved…