Category: DIY

How To Make A Dual Off Camera Flash Bracket For As Little As $30

Uldis Plinte

Studio strobes have plenty of interesting light modifiers, sadly, hot shoe strobes (or OCF – off camera flash) do not fit in those due to the different form factor.  But! hot shoe strobes can be adapted to fit studio strobe mounts using appropriate adapter/holder. This configuration allows to use a cheap and light strobes on location without […]

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Product Photography Tip: Use Your Bathtub As A Makeshift Studio

Udi Tirosh

Sometimes you need an on-white photo, especially if you are shooting products. But not always there is an on-white setup available. This of course if you don’t count the bathtub. Polish strap maker Eupidere needed to take some photos of their newly released leather straps. They opted out of studio / table top session and instead […]

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Quickly Browse Through Your Film Negatives Using Only Your iPad

Gannon Burgett

Have you ever scanned film negatives on your own? If so, you know it can be a time-consuming process. To help make sure you don’t waste time scanning unwanted negatives, YouTuber Adam of Ekenstam has shared a clever way to preview your negatives using an iPad. All you need to preview your photos is a […]

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A DIY Guide For Fixing The Rokinon/Samyang MFT Fisheye Focus Issue

Oliver Hanka

The internet has quite a bit of reports that the Rokinon/Samyang/Walimex MFT Fisheye has some issues with its focus scale. The reports range from the annoying”Infinity is at the 0.5ft mark” all the way up to “not focusing to infinity at all“. My lens had the latter issue. That’s why I started to look around the […]

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How To Build A Super Sturdy Tripod for 30 Pounds

Pat Casey

Many years ago as a newly qualified civil engineer I went to my first proper site knowing everything!! My new boss was much cleverer. I spent 6 months as a chainman helping a proper engineer, I walked miles carrying a huge wooden tripod and a bloody gr…

This Is How To Make Fake Blood And How It’s Been Used Throughout History

Udi Tirosh

Blood is crucial to movies. And it is not just the gore-filled, army oriented, zombie killing movies. Every time someone get hit and need to bleed a bit, there is the issue of where blood comes from. Of course, you can not use real blood. There are moral and ethical issues with that. Not to […]

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How To Make Hard Case For Your Gear for $10

Udi Tirosh

Some gear needs extra protection especially when going on an outdoor production. Here is how to quickly make a hard case to protect your gear. I am actually going to use part of the packaging that the gear was sent with. While this is not a solution fo…

Creating Wonderful light painting with A Simple LED strip

Udi Tirosh

Photographer Eric Pare (previously) is always pushing his 1 second light painting technique, and it is quite interesting to see what results you can achieve when you are imposing creative limits on yourself. Being limited to roughly 1 second, Eric wanted to try something new for Adobe Max and created one of the simplest, yet powerful […]

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