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    DIY – Create Your Own Bokeh

    Apr 25, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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)

    Apr 21, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Apr 18, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Apr 18, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Apr 13, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Apr 13, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Apr 7, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Apr 7, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Apr 7, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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

    Apr 5, 2007 Udi Tirosh

    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…