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Add style to your natural light photographs

Aug 20, 2017 Clinton lofthouse

This week we will be looking at adding style to your natural light photographs. Recently I have shot against my usual style, which is off…



How to melt your camera sensor shooting the eclipse

Aug 20, 2017 Udi Tirosh

You know how a tiny, toy magnifying glass can burn little pieces of paper? Well, the camera lens is a not a small, toy, magnifying…



Use welding glass as a 10 stops ND filter

Aug 20, 2017 Udi Tirosh

Neutral density filter reduces the amount of light going into the lens, so you can take long exposures even when the light is bright.

Long exposures blur anything moving, like water, clouds, or people. This can be very useful for making choppy water look smooth, making clouds streak, or getting rid of people at a tourist attraction.

These types of filters usually cost up to $200 (especially on big diameter lenses), but with this simple hack, you can make it for only $5.



How are you going to celebrate World Photography Day?

Aug 19, 2017 Dunja Đuđić

For all photographers, August 19 is known as World Photography Day. Well, this calls for a celebration, right? On behalf of myself and DIYP team,…



This 12 minute short film was all shot with a single static camera

Aug 18, 2017 John Aldred

A One Shot Film, is a movie shot in one long take, by a single camera. Or, it’s cut in such a way as to…



This $11,000 lens is exactly why you don’t check camera gear when flying

Aug 18, 2017 John Aldred

It should be pretty common knowledge by now that you don’t check your delicate camera gear when flying. Ok, sometimes, you might no choice, especially…



French president sues photographer for secretly photographing him on a vacation

Aug 18, 2017 Dunja Đuđić

Unlike some previous French presidents, Emmanuel Macron demanded privacy while on vacation. However, this didn’t prevent a paparazzi photographer to stalk him around Marseillee. He…



If you don’t want to risk losing your data you need a good backup workflow

Aug 18, 2017 John Aldred

There’s one simple fact about hard drives. They’re going to die. It’s not a question of if, but when. And when it does happen, because…



Baby dolphin dies because tourists posed with it for selfies

Aug 18, 2017 Dunja Đuđić

How far people would go for a selfie probably shouldn’t surprise me anymore. However, they seem to constantly push the boundaries. Earlier this month, a…



This is the oldest known portrait of a U.S. President

Aug 18, 2017 Dunja Đuđić

There’s an interesting story about the oldest presidential portrait known so far. The sixth U.S. president John Quincy Adams sat for a photographer in August…