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DIY – Create Your Own Bokeh
Bokeh is an adaptation from a a Japanese word meaning blur. In photography this term is used to describe the quality of the areas in…
The Origami Studio (An Extrapolation to The $0.02 Macro Studio)
This post on a 2 cents macro studio got me thinking. Firstly because it is a great idea, it employs the same technique as the…
DIY – Make a Free Light Stand Out of an Old Tripod
If you need a better way to hold the light you use while taking pictures with the DIY backdrop you just made, or you need…
DIY – Studio Equipment: Greenscreens and Backdrop Stands
This article will explain how to design and assemble bluescreens, greenscreens and backdrops for photos and video, as well as how to easily and inexpensively…
DIY – The Cheap Yet Shamefull Underwater Camera Housing
It is reported that Navy SEALS commonly use two condoms to seal firing assemblies for their underwater explosives, having thus coined the term: “Dual Waterproof…
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…
DIY – Sound Trigger for the Sigma EF-500 Flash
This article will describe my home made sound trigger electronic kit. I use this circuit kit to take high speed photos like the nice tomato…
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…








































