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Five Poorman's Lighting Mods When Pro Lighting Gear Is Just Too Expensive
In this post you will find a collection of really (and I mean really) cheap alternatives to pro lighting. Will you get the same crisp results that you get with pro gear? Probably just an...
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Soup From Stone Or Umbrella Holder From Bed Wheel
The following guest post was written by Ron Horner, a Photographer and a DIYer extraordiner.This morning my employer came into work and wanted my help in doing a portraiture shoot of his daughter and...
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PVC Studio Lights With An Attitude
Mechanical Mashup is a site to my taste. It is a new and fresh pod/video cast thing with great DIY tutorials. Lots of Photography, but also other fun hacks and ideas for the DIY lovers. And to top...
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Low On Budget? Consider A Desk Lamp + Softbox
If you read this blog long enough, you know I am a big fan of small strobes. They are portable, relatively cheap, can squeeze some intense light and great for on the go. Key words for this post are...
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Create Seamless White Portraits In Your... Anywhere
I've had it happen when I heard a veteran photog telling another, "This one? You cannot do this one, you don't have the gear".Now, as the name of the site suggests, this is not what I consider a good...
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A Trio - DIY Multi-Flash Strobe Mount
Multi flash mounts are cool. I have discussed them before when we did a DIY on a dual flash mount. Just a quick recap: Using multiple flashed allows you to either drive more light or to remain on the...
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Pimping A Compete Strobist Studio
UPDATE: Looks like Kurbster droped out of flickr taking the very excellent set of strobist studio with him. I am going to leave the post here as the text still has value, although the images were...
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DIY Strip Lights And Rim Lights
After reading David Hobby's post about rim lights, I decided that I wanna have a go myself. In spite of David Advice, I went with strip lights. Made from an electrical racer. I did push them a bit more...
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Spill Control Diffusion Screens
The cardboard light tent is a constantly popular post here at DIYP, and no wonder it is one of the easiest ways for shoot a small product [note to self, make a really huge cardboard tent]. However, it...
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The $10 DIY Foamcore Softbox
In this tutorial I will explain how I built the softbox used to take the image on the left. It is a 40cm X 40cm foamboard softbox that accepts a strobe. Kinda similar in size and effect to the...
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Need. Bigger. Light
Sometimes, a small softbox would not do it. You just need a bigger light. The thing is that bigger modifiers eat more light up. This a guest post by Edward Peters will show how he dealt with building a...
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We Don't Need No Light Meter,
when I was your age we used to squint/half squint to measure light! OK, I am not that old. Actually my father didn't even take photographs beyond the average vacation on the beach photo.Yet, there are...
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Build A "Westcott Spiderlite TD3" Backlight Kit
I love strobes, anyone who reads this blog knows it. But more and more I find myself attracted to the lure of continuous light. No pop blinks, no need for modeling light, and pupils are smaller. Kirk...
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Breadbox Strip-Light From A Plastic Bread Container, Spaghetti Sauce And A...
After seeing some very creative use of strip lighting here, on the Strobist site and Flickr, often as 'rim' lighting, I thought "If only I had that fancy gear, my stuff would look as good as Joel...
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Smart Rims In Small Doses
Photographer Kevin Thai reminds us that it is more about how you use your lights than how many of them you have.In what I would call Home Improvement geniousy, Kevin dumps the old concept of cereal...
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Laid Back Countinous Light Ring Flash Tutorial
If you've been here over that last week, you know that we love ring flashes. In fact we love them so much we made one :)While we have featured manymany strobe based ring flashes, there is one thing...
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Build A Beauty Dish From An IKEA Lamp
We featured a few beauty dishes before, one made from a turkey pan, and one made from soup bowls. (Even when it seems like DIY, it is actually about food).With a recent mention about the connection...
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Creating a Big Bare Bulb Flash From An IKEA Regolit Lamp
If you love IKEA for their cheap furniture, you'd probably love them even more after discovering the huge possibilities they provide for creating lighting modifiers. (Beauty Dish, Ring Light and even a...
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