Tutorials
Quick Tip: DIY “Four Square” Flash Bracket
Looks like the four square is gaining popularity with off camera flash photographers. If you can shell the bucks for four strobes (only 268 for…
Light Painting? There’s An App For That
A while back we featured a BTS that shows how a group of artists used iPads to extrude lightpainting letters from iPads. And I know…
Bullet Photography – The Cheaper Version
About three weeks ago we featured a comprehensive tutorial for doing high speed bullet photography. In that post, Maurice Ribble explained how to use a…
Breadbox Strip-Light From A Plastic Bread Container, Spaghetti Sauce And A Twelve-Pack
After seeing some very creative use of strip lighting here, on the Strobist site and Flickr, often as ‘rim’ lighting, I thought “If only I…
A TimeLapse Rail From BBQ Rotisserie Motor
The holy grail of timelapse movies is motion. Photographers like Tom Lowe (whom you should definitely check out) uses state of the art rails and…
eBook: Your Complete Guide To Building A Photography Studio At Home
I’ve got a very happy announcement today. DIYP is releasing its first eBook – Home Studio Photography: Your Complete Guide To Building A Photography Studio…
Create Amazing Light Spirographs With The Spirograph Wheel
Light painting is the process of using one or more light sources to fill in a single exposure to create a unique image. If you…
Use Lego For Making High Speed Photography Pictures
Ok, I’ll be the first to admit, Lego makes some awesome stuff, and I spent countless hours as a kid, Playing with those bricks. My…
Bullet Photography At Home
Most photographers have seen some of Dr. Harold Edgerton’s work like a bullet shooting through an apple or a bullet splitting a playing card. Back…
The 7$ Huge (Huge!) DIY Beauty Dish
The $7 beauty dish emerged out of a desire to experiment on the cheap, to see if I could duplicate the effect of a real…








































