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    How To Build A Giga Pixel Scanner

    Sep 12, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    Large high resolution scans are kind of an art form, and definitely not easy from the technical aspect. Photographer/maker Charlie Romer took on creating a…

    Clever Way To Store Multiple Seamless Paper Backdrops

    Sep 12, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    One of the more annoying things to store is seamless paper backdrops. They are big, bulky and you can’t lay them on the flow because…

    How To Properly Put Dates In Photo Files Names

    Sep 9, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    do your photo files have dates in them? They probably should so you can easily track them and know when they were taken even if…

    A 3D Printed 4×5 Inch Pinhole Camera

    Sep 9, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    If you were wondering how far 3D printed has come, here is a nice example. A fully working 4×5 inch Pinhole Camera made by maker…

    Quick Tip: Free-lensing SLR Lenses With Micro 4/3 Bodies

    Sep 7, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    Here is a great free-lensing tip courtesy of DIYP reader Timothy Blair. In a nutshell, free-lensing is creating a tilt/shift lens by separating a lens…

    Want To Get Your Subjects Comfortable In A Shoot? Get Them In A Shower

    Sep 4, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    Photographer Manjari Sharma just wrapped up one of the more interesting photography projects that I’ve seen, where she used her own shower as the location…

    Crop vs. Full Frame: Excuse Me While I Rant

    Sep 2, 2013 Jeff Guyer

    Consider this– Every significant photo in the history of the medium was taken with a camera less technologically advanced than the one sitting in your…

    Building A DIY Slide Light

    Sep 1, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    It is no secret that we have gotten a bit Slide Crazy ever since we kicked off the Light Blaster. I mean we’ve always loved…

    Photographing the World’s Biggest (8 GP+) Where’s Waldo

    Aug 29, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    A little while back we shard a live feed from photographing the world’s largest Where’s Waldo photograph (click it to dive in). With over 450…

    Athletic Portrait Lighting Breakdown + Getting Models

    Aug 28, 2013 JP Danko

    Last week I shot an athletic portrait session for emerging fitness model Kristin Cavarzan.  In this article, I want to touch on the studio lighting…