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Photography DIY – How to Make a Flash Bracket!

Posted on March 15, 2010 by max

For those of you looking for better flash bracket solutions, you might want to try Brent’s DIY flash bracket, which according to him, helps your wireless sensor remains unobstructed:

The point of this bracket vs. directly mounting the flash the umbrella adapter? It’s simple – the optical wireless sensor remains unobstructed. For instance, when using my ProKit softbox, the wireless sensor on the Speedlite is blocked, so getting the pre-flash signal to it is a challenge. But with this bracket, the softbox goes on, and the sensor is lying back there free and clear,

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Photography DIY – How to Make Light Tent with Binders!

Posted on February 10, 2010 by max

Here’s a great idea, make a light tent with binders. This will be great for times when you need to get something photographed professionally but you don’t have the time to buy one or make a better one. Actually, I am going to make one of these, I think it’s simply and neat.

There are plenty of variations. More binder clips can be used to add stability. Double folds can be used if the paper is thinner. Different colored paper can be used for different colored light

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Photography DIY – How to Use Bokeh and Depth of Field!

Posted on February 8, 2010 by max

It’s been about 3 months since I’ve emerged myself into the world of photography. One of the reasons I decided to move to a DSLR camera is because of “Depth of Field” where you can focus on your objects sharply.

Since I’ve owned a DSLR, I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with depth of field and if you are just dipping your foot into DSLR photography, you might want to check out this great post on how to

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Photography DIY – How to Make Light Painting Photos with Cold Cathode Tube Lights!

Posted on December 14, 2009 by max

Light painting is a fun way to use lights to make cool photographs, here’s a great way using cold cathode tube lights. (You can see here for how to make a DIY cathode tube light.)p

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Photography DIY – How to Make a Wooden Tripod!

Posted on November 23, 2009 by max

Tripods are probably one of the most important a photographer must have and if you already own a regular tripod but need a static one that doesn’t need changes in height (for example for a studio), you might want to look into building your own wooden tripod. Of course, this DIY wooden tripod isn’t going to make you look professional but it could be a great way to make custom-height tripods without spending a couple hundred bills on commercial ones.

Tripod for camera, if you have a camera and want to take good pictures in which you can

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Photography DIY – How to Take a Photograph of Car in Motion!

Posted on November 3, 2009 by max

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Here’s a simple way of taking great photographs of cars in motion without actually having the car go faster than 2MPH. I think this might be helpful for those of trying to take photos with “effects of driving fast“.

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Photography DIY – How to Make a Medium Format Camera!

Posted on November 3, 2009 by max

Here’s a great DIY showing you how to make a medium format camera from scratch. I guess these cameras are usually super expensive but this DIY shows you how to make it yourself so you save some money on it too. Well, I am not a photography experts (yet) but seems like also a great way to learn more about photography in general.

The first thing to do was research of course. To start with: what do i know about cameras?

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Photography DIY – How to Make a Large Camera Flash Diffuser!

Posted on November 2, 2009 by max

For travel, you might want to make one of these camera flash diffusers out of an old cigarette box. For other big projects, you might want to learn how to make a large camera flash diffuser as outlined in SteamPunkWorkShop.com here.

Btw, my Canon 7d DSLR should be here next week, can’t wait to get my hands on it!

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Photography DIY – How to Make a Cheap 40-inch Photo Reflector!

Posted on October 17, 2009 by max

While you can actually buy a 40-inch photo reflector for about $40 on Amazon, you can also make it yourself for just $8.

If you are into photography, I think this is definitely a great way to save you some big bucks, especially if you need multiple photo reflectors for your next photo shoot.

So photography is not only a hobby of mine, but also more or less absolute necessity for what I do here on invent geek. That being said I ha

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