Tutorials
The Aviator Is An On The Go Travel Jib
If you’ve been reading the DIYP for any length of time, you know that we love jibs. We love them because they provide an easy…
How To Make A Simple And Effective Flash Diffuser
Flash diffusers have always been one of the more effective projects on the blog. If you are a run and gun photographer doing events or…
Quick Tip – Importing Multiple Memory Cards With Lightroom
If you are only using one card reader or one memory card, this tip is of little use to you. But if you are using…
A Light Bat Is Making A Stamp All Over The World (+ Tutorial)
Photographer and light painting extraordinaire TigTab (who makes beautiful light stencil images) sent a light bat flying all over the word. Well, actually, it is…
Portable “Kino Flo” Setup For Taking Head Shots
Photographer Tristan Shea Penner came up with a pretty sweet portrait setup inspired by Peter Hurley‘s 3 Kino Flo setup (2 sides, one overhead).
3 Zoom H1 Recording Tips I Learned The Hard Way
I’ve been shooting still for quite a long time now, about 18 years. But videos are really new to me. And it turns out that…
Slow Light (Light Painting As An Additive Tool)
A while back I was too cheap (lazy?) to get around to purchasing some speedlights and in typical DIY fashion for me, I figured I…
Amazing Flowers Made With Water Splashes
When it comes to creativity with water, Jack Long is one of the most out of the box photographers I know. (Jack is also the…
Using a Backpacked Octadome When Shooting Solo
New York based photographer Ian Spanier had Muscular Development ask him to shoot pro bodybuilder and four-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler.
A New Twist On An Old Bouncer
A simple flash bouncer is the next best thing to shooting off camera flash. It either makes the flash bigger by diffusing some of…






































