lighting
Lighting – Low key Lighting Setups
Last week I have talked about an important aspect of any picture – contrast. It was only natural to follow up with an article about…
Studio Lighting – The Cheapest Ring Light Ever
Reader B.Stevens has a cool idea for the cheapest most versatile ring light ever (now we have shown some ringlights before, but not that easy…
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…






































