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Studio Lighting – Flash Mounted homemade DIY Beauty Dish or From Soup Dish to Beauty Dish
Do you know why they call this piece of studio equipment “Beauty Dish”? Because it make people look beautiful. The idea is similar to other…
Studio Lighting – DIY: Home-made Power Pack Flashes (Part II) – Variations on a theme
Ok, So you’ve got your DIY Flash/Strobe working. Now you want to evolve to a full DIY studio – Here are some uses for the…
Studio Lighting – DIY: Home-made Power Pack Flashes (Part I)
The following article was contributed by Avner Richard, not only a great photgrapher, but also an electronic wizard. Studio strobes are quite expensive, especially when…
How to Take Good Pictures of Buildings
A guide to architectural photography (or how to photograph buildings) ShootingThe key to good architectural photography is to point the camera straight at the subject….
Homemade Matchbox Pinhole Camera
Alan of alspix has come up with a nice a easy solution for creating a pinhole camera from a simple matchbox. here is how he…
Studio Lighting – What Short Light And Broad Light Are
What Is Short Light? Short light is type of studio lighting setup, where the face side which is further from the camera gets the main…
A Quick Tip – How To Tell A Charged Battery From An Empty One
When I go on a photo session, I sometimes take a few en-el3a batteries for the session. I Just dump them all in my bag….
Using Unsharp Mask Filter to Increase Contrast
This article will demonstrate three techniques for increasing contrast in a picture. The tool we are going to use for this is Photoshop. Ok, so…
Flash Diffuser for Canon S2IS
John Wilkins writes: I’ve been reading your site diligently since I found it late last year.Love the site btw.I don’t have a full article, but…
Printable lens hoods
It’s been a long time since I have seen such a brilliant idea. This site offers free printable PDF documents that can be folded into…


































