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How A Complete Photography Bag Looks When X-Rayed

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I’ve been working with Guy Viner and until now I am not really sure if he is more talented or more crazy. We discussed the idea of submitting his kit to In My Bag and he came up with a brilliant concept of submitting his bag X-Rayed (that must have come from the crazy half). This is not the first time Guy X Rays photography items. Our last rundevues was with a set of X-rayed Nikon Lenses. Below, you can find the complete kit plus some interesting observations Guy had after finishing fiddling with the X ray camera and his kit.

The kit is organized by numbers so it could be fun to treat this as a quiz and see if you can identify each of the parts before hitting the jump and seeing what each piece is.[Read More…]

The StrobePack Is A Wearable Glittering DIY Lighting Studio

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The basic goal of the StrobePack, is to provide high-quality lighting at night and in low-light conditions, although it can be used in daylight, it really works best with low ambient light. It allows low-ISO, long-exposure, higher aperture shooting, which results in sharp, clean subjects while still soaking in ambient light sources.

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The Winner Of Our How I Took It Contest Is….

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So, new year is just around the corner and I am in a debt for announcing our How I Took It contest winners. A debt that I am about to clear today.

Whichever way I look at it, it was an awesome ride, starting with a killer team of sponsors which contributed over $6300 in prizes through the on going buzz, and most importantly the submissions made to the contest by you.

I got a few questions about how the judging process went, so I thought I will clarify about that before listing the winners. basically it all came down to a huge excel sheet containing over 100 submissions. Each submission was rated by the amount of likes, retweets and G+ mentions that it got and fed into a formula Score=(3xTweets)+(2xLikes)+(6xG+). The highest scores won the contest. [Read More…]

Poll: Which Tutorial Did You Like Best?

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How about YOU get to decide!!

We have had over 100 submission to our How I Took It Contest and I could not be happier with the results. A few of the more awesome tutorials on the contest are here for your judgment where the finer of the all will win the Readers Favorite banner along with the eternal bragging rights and a prize pack worth over $700. Take your vote on the poll below. Results and grand winner on Thursday.

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Win A Package Of Photo Goodies For Two Buddies

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UPDATE: This giveaway is has ended. thanks for playing :) see winner below.

Today we are giving away a sweet package of prizes with Joby and Acme Made. It really is in the spirit of sharing.

We are giving away a wonderful set of a stylish Acme Made Montgomery Street Backpack and an Acme Made Montgomery Street Kit Bag. A Joby UltraFit Sling Strap (Man or Woman) and a Joby Three-Way Camera Strap. A GorillaPod GripTight & Micro GripTight. And one big GorillaPod Focus with Ballhead X. The package is valued at $460)[Read More…]

10 Days Left To Win Over $6300 Of Photo Gear In Our How I Took It Contest

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Heya folks, this is our friendly message to let you know that there are 10 days left to submit entries to our How I Took It Contest. The winner will get an awesome package of photography goodies worth over $6300, including a brand new Nikon D7000 + 18-105mm Lens or a Canon 60D + 18-200mm Lens D7000. 

We’ve had a great run of entries so far which you can find here. The full list of prizes to get you inspired is after the jump.

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DIY: Small Circular Softboxes

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Photographer and design student Hunter Frerich came up with this really cool DIY for building a small circular soft box. It kinda resembles one of the first projects on DIYP (which is the one that actually pushed me to start the site) but is waaaaay nicer and probably gives way better light. It kinda resembles the Honl Traveller8, but exchanges the high $$ for sewing skills.

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A Shotgun Camera Tripod – Mounting A Camera Next To The Driver’s Seat

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Sometimes you’d wanna mount a camera next to the driver. This gives you a great POV as the shotgun passenger.

For stills you may wanna do this if you want to catch the dial going up to 88 MHP without breaking the law or shopping the speed in.

But I find this technique to be more relevant for videographers that want to use the shotgun POV as part of their story telling.

While a Gorillapod may be an option for smaller cameras, big cameras need more support. In this tutorial, Boris Georgiev is going to show us how to build a very simple and cheap shotgun mount.[Read More…]

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