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Light Painting Using an Arduino-based PegBoard
If you’ve been following the blog for a while you know that there are some neat iPad/iPhone apps that create spatial drawings, like Holographium or…
Friday Quicky – Build a Pop Up Diffuser From A Heavy-Duty Funnel
We have featured a bunch of pop up flash diffused before as a poorman’s alternative to getting some nice diffused light. Build materials ranged from…
Shoot Big Cars With A DIY Huge Scrim
There are lots of ways to use a large scrim, you can use it to create partial shade, reflect natural light, or fire strobes into…
Trigger Trap Will Press The Shutter Button When Anything Happens
Our pal Haje Jan Kamps from Photocritic came up with a pretty smart kickstarters project – the Trigger Trap. This should not come as a…
Lightscythe Is The Mother Of All Light Painting Sabers
Gavin from Sydney (Flickr user Mechatronics) came up with this amazing application for programmable LED strips. Using an small Arduino to control 2m programmable LED…
Create Triple Pop Splashes By Firing Three Strobes
I love how Corrie White (yea, the ultimate super splash guide Corrie) approached the issue of creating a multi-splash. The hardest or most technically challenging…
How To Build 24 DIY Softboxes
About three weeks ago, I asked DIYP readers to build a softbox. It was meant for fun and education. To add some zap the good…
Give People An Aura Using Light Painting
See that nice aura on the picture to the left? No… it was not taken using the new generation of psychic point and shoot, not…
Build A Semi-Anamorphic 35mm Pinhole Camera
An Amamorfic Camera provides a clever method of using the 35mm film to capture non standard aspect ratio photographs. The short version is that the…
Dancer – A Shoot Anatomy
It is not a big secret that dancers are one of my favorite subject matter. I was just so lucky to have the opportunity to…








































