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Five Poorman’s Lighting Mods When Pro Lighting Gear Is Just Too Expensive
In this post you will find a collection of really (and I mean really) cheap alternatives to pro lighting. Will you get the same crisp…
Portrait Photography In The Eyes Of 5 Years Olds
I had the honor and the pleasure to give a talk at my daughter’s kindergarten on Friday. We recently moved to a new place and…
Create Wonderful Worlds Using Soap Bubbles
Mrs. H. should have known better than to push Steve Hermitage (Flickr) into doing the dishes. What started out as an innocent dish washing exercise…
Don’t Give Up On Your GI Trigger – Three Ways To Revive It When It Looks Dead
So you hacked yourself a gadget infinity flash radio slave and you are happy. You are shooting off camera flash and things work splendid. Actually,…
Using Plexi As A Photography Tool
I’m gonna talk about Plexi in a moment, but first, Happy Halloween everyone. OK, Plexi. It is very common for a product shot to be…
Just Before Going To New Zealand
Chase Jarvis is a photographer I really love following. Heck, if he ever counted his mentions on this blog, he’d probably call the stalking police….
Light Painting Primer
The following article is a guest post by Dana Maltby a.k.a. Twin Cities Brightest a.k.a { tcb } an addict to Light Painting. In a…
Band Your Cables for Orderly Photography Travel
This is a quick photo-travel tip by DIYP reader Don Simpson. Actually it may be really obvious, but I learned that it is better to…
CloudPlug – Backup Solution Review
As you may recall my computer kinda crushed on me last year. I’ve been looking for a backup solution ever since (in the meantime, there…
Creating A Blur Effect With The Whatever’s Around Filter
Look at the picture on the top from Gilad Ben Ari. Click on it to really see it larger. Something just does not add up….





































