flash photography
More Power To Your Flash – External SLA Battery Flash Mod
If you’ve been shooting with a flash for a while, I’m sure you had some battery problem or another at least once. Like when one…
Learning About The Small Things
If you, like me, have little money to spend on big expensive lighting, you can start up your flash photography with a small flash (AKA…
Light Falloff Cheat Sheet Card
As part of my ongoing exploration of portrait photography in general and flash studio photography in particular, I wanted to examine the effect that a…
Reflector Card Cheat Sheet
My previous cheat sheet dealt with the impact of light position on portraiture. The idea was that you can print this cheat sheet and carry…
Portrait Lighting Cheat Sheet Card
Setting up lighting for a portrait can be quite a complex task. If you, like me, are using small strobes which have mo modeling light…
The DIY Speed Strap – Accessories And Samples
In the previous post I demonstrated my lack of patience by constructing a Honl Speed Strap, while waiting for my Amazon Honl speed strap to…
DIY Photography Lighting – The DIY Speed Strap
I really wanted a speed strap. Ever since the restrictive light post over at Strobist, I wished for one of those magical straps. If you…
Studio Lighting – Cactus Slave Flash Cable Hack
As you may know, I am a great fan of off camera flash I’ve owned a Nikon SB-28 since my analog days and added a…
Studio Lighting – Stainless Steel Beauty Dish
Photographer J. Chris Hansen built the soup bowl beauty dish for his photography studio. It was all well and dandy while it was mounted on…
Readers Projects – The CD Spindle Ringflash
DIYP reader Chaval Brasil came up with an ingenious way to create a ring flash. By routing the light from a hot shoe flash to…



































