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DIY – The Spiderpod: a modification of Hunter Frerich’s wire tripod
Rob Rohde-Szudy from duckworksmagazine has a great improvment for the Hunter Frerich’s super duper tripod. Yes! here is another creative way to save some $$$…
DIY – Universal Sound and Optical Slave Flash Trigger
See this exploding grape picture? it was taken using a method called high-speed-photography. Yup, this is the same image type as those exploding balloons, squashed…
DIY – High Speed Photography at Home
How to take photos like the one you are seeing here. It’s a glass of Champaign, being shot with a BB gun. You can use…
The Sigma EF-500 flash – Light duration vs. output power
The measurements in the below table help to illustrate the amount of time that the flash is emitting light in each of its various power…
DIY – Release Cable for Canon DSLRs
This is a very simple diagram and instructions for building a shutter release cable for a canon DSLR. Cable release is that thingamajig you use…
Take Infrared (IR) Pictures With Your Digital Camera
In this article, I will show you how to make a cheap infrared (IR) filter for your digital camera out of bits and pieces such…
DIY – Continuous Ink Systems
Some how, back in February of 2006, I found out about Continuous Ink Systems (CIS) and begin my search. I came across a man selling…
DIY – Cheap Mini Monopod
Looks like 1/4″ bolts are very useful. They have been attached to bottle caps and to wires to create several type of DIY tripods. here…
Photography Project – A Burning Light Bulb
Bulbs, lots of bulbs. This is what you need if you are going to do this project. In the picture you see the bulb’s filament’s…
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…






































