lighting
Studio Lighting – Lighting Diagrams, Planning and Explaining
Sometimes you want to make a diagram of your photo session. (OK, sometimes you don’t, but sometimes you do). I, for example, am going to…
Lighting – High Key and Low Key
After discussing contrast at a very top level view, I would like to introduce two twins, closely related to contrast – High Key and Low…
DIY built-in pop-up flash diffuser (soft screen)
Why spend a fortune on an on-camera softscreen diffuser? (OK, 9 dollars are hardly a fortune, yet…). This guest post by Huy Hoang shows you…
DIY – Homemade Speedlite “Snoot”
This guest post was written by Leann Wrightsman, a photo DIY-er extraordinaire. This snoot making article has one of the best effort to result ratio….
Studio DIY – Softboxing The World – A Home Grown Softbox
A softbox is a studio thingy that professional photographers use on their studios. Why? for a couple of reasons. For one thing, softboxes create a…
Do it yourself – Project Lightbox
Pedro G. Dias came up with a way to make one sturdy light box. This article will tell the Story of The Making of the…
Studio Lighting – Instant Lightsphere – The Emergency Diffuser
So, I was trying to make a nice lighting for a still life picture I was taking. Sadly, I had none of my usual crap…
Studio Lighting – Flash Mounted homemade DIY Beauty Dish or From Soup Dish to Beauty Dish
Do you know why they call this piece of studio equipment “Beauty Dish”? Because it make people look beautiful. The idea is similar to other…
Studio Lighting – Super Simple Light Tent
I was inspired to do this project after seeing the PVC light tent posted on the MAKE blog. This light tent uses a cardboard box…
Studio Lighting – What Short Light And Broad Light Are
What Is Short Light? Short light is type of studio lighting setup, where the face side which is further from the camera gets the main…




































