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    Light Painting Using an Arduino-based PegBoard

    Jul 5, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jul 1, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jun 29, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jun 29, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jun 28, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jun 28, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jun 22, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jun 13, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jun 9, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Jun 6, 2011 Udi Tirosh

    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…