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We cant leave November without dropping a group gift! Slap on your group tag and come grab a DIY Christmas Tree. If you start working one it now, you should be finished by Christmas...
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One of our irrigation system water valves decided to flow water even when the system was turned off and that's not ideal. I did get lucky and was able to replace just the upper valve body and diaphragm and that fixed it. Replacing the whole valve would have been a nightmare involving lots of shovel time for my poor wife. 8)
I did have some excitement here as I was head down in here working in our 375 degree heat when an alligator lizard darted across my hand and I thought I was snakebit for a second. Whee.
DIY Headband! A very cute headband with paper flowers attached.. By Request of our very own Whisper Mizin.
District 5 starts tomorrow and geek. is in the Indie District!
<3 All original mesh & can be found in 8 diff colors. One shown in pic is with black & white comics look :3
geek. <3
My first attempt at the DIY Bokeh wall. Leather rose on granite with crumpled aluminium foil as the wall.
40 year old classical guitar. I've used this angle a couple of times before with an acoustic but I tried it with a homemade gobo this time.
Don't try this at home!
It has been going on for longer than you might think:--
In the Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt dating to 1550 BC, a section is devoted to eye diseases.
Celsus the Greek philosopher of the second century AD gave a detailed description of cataract surgery by the couching method.
Couching is the earliest documented form of cataract surgery. As a cataract is a clouding in the lens of the eye, couching is a technique whereby the lens is dislodged, thus removing the opacity. Although couching is nowadays routinely practised only in remote areas, it was a precursor to modern cataract surgery
Maybe DIY Orthopaedic surgery next.
Beneath the large, abandoned, hoarders house sat piles worth of DIY equipment, wood, doors, paints, solvents, and heaps more!
Visit my website at akikorhonen.org for more projects, thanks!
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My DIY ringflash that I've been doing for the last few days.
(Photo, starting from top left) Description
(1) I started with a 24 cm diameter steel bown and a normal food can.
(2) Added some tape on the bowl and drew the cutting lines with the can as a guide.
(3) Bottom from the bowl and can removed. I also shortened the cat a little bit. I first drilled a hole on the bottom of the bowl and then cut the metal with metal cutters.
(4) The two parts connected with strong epoxy that was meant for metals.
(5) Hole for the flash made and few connecting holes drilled. Also the needed aluminum parts are cut and bent in shape.
(6) The bottom part covered with black hockey tape. In the photo it has a Manfrotto quick attachment plate on it. Also has a hole for attaching it to the tripod mount of the camera.
(7) The top part where the flash is attached. Made some holes for the DIY TTL flash cord.
(8) I added some plastic parts for the flash hole to make it look nicer and to prevent light from escaping too much. Next I added some putty to finish it (wasn't necessary but I got too carried away again with the building).
(9) Putty and the bowl fully sanded and waiting for some gray primer and matte black finish.
(10) Painted and finished. Added some black hockey tape on the can's edge to prevent it from scratching the camera.
(11) Close up of the flash hole. A little bit of aluminum foil tape on the inside and black hockey tape on the edge.
(12) White thin fabric streched and being glued on the edges to get some diffusion to the light. There is a rubber band holding the fabric to the can.
See the finished righflash:
* DIY ringflash finished, without camera
* DIY ringflash finished, with camera
Cost: bowl 3€, can 0€, aluminum 1€ + some extra costs from paints etc. but I'm not going to count them to the total. Cheap anyway.
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I've acros this idea on a creative blog online and LOVED the idea so much I wanted to make it for our home.
So this weekend was all about DIY and this is the end result!
A very happy-covered-in-white-paint Paula
and some fresh green in the livingroom together
with a small part of my camera collection!
My husband and friend have been busy doing some DIY this week and the 'toolbox' theme popped into my mind. Another one ticked off the list :o)
117 pictures in 2017 (23) in or from the toolbox
Supplies:
1 aluminum gutter
2 gutter caps
8 sheet metal screws
1 tube of silicon caulk
Tools:
drill (w/ drill bit)
caulking gun
1.25 steel snips
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The biggest pain for this lil project is cutting the aluminum gutter in the parking lot to fit it in your car. You might want to bring/buy some leather gloves so you don't cut yourself. Also, remember to bring your measurements and a measuring tape. If you don't have a pair of snips, you can buy them in the store. I bought my supplies from home depot, but i'm sure lowe's or ace hardware sell gutters as well. Home depot keeps the gutter caps in boxes right beneath the gutters. Be sure to get both the left sided and right sided caps.
If you make one of your own, please post a pic. I'd love to see it.
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Update:
Since I planted succulents, I figured I would just spray them a lil from time to time and not have to worry about drainage. But I got lazy and started watering them, and wasn't keeping track of how often, resulting in saturated roots and very unhappy plants.
If you make this planter, I'd recommend following @jessbruder's improvement by layering some gravel at the bottom, before adding dirt and drilling a hole at the bottom of one of the sides to attach a hose for drainage.
Oryctes nasicornis, European rhinoceros beetle, 32 mm
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As I've mentioned in a couple of recent posts I've been playing around with an experimental solution for wide angle macro shooting. I promised I would elaborate on it, so here goes!
I recently posted a more detailed version of this on my Swedish blog: makrofokus.se/blogg/2016/9/22/diy-makro-fisheye.html The English bot-translation is actually quite good.
Otherwise, please have a look the first comment below for a summarized description, photos of the gear and more sample photos!
This image is stacked from four exposures in Zerene Stacker but it's not really focus stacked but aperture stacked (explanation below!).
These tools are sparingly used. DIY is not really my forte, and I prefer to use my hard-earned income to pay a professional to do jobs properly. I don't even know what the thing on the right is (don't worry; I don't really want to know).
Taken because on 2 April 2022 the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are shooting DIY Home Decor.