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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.
A softbox that's easy to make, effective, inexpensive and professional in looks.
here's the tutorial with pictures
enchantingkerala.org/digital-photography-school/diy_softb...
do let me know your comments.
Warm Regards - Sinu
instructions posted on my blog
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ali edwards • creature comforts • readymade blog
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This is the Weekly view of my DIY planner I designed and printed at home. For years I'd used every planner system on the market - Covey, Day-Timer, Time Design - you name it - I've used them. Gets quite expensive after so many years! So, I took all the best ideas from every system and incorporated them all into my own page design. Hope you like it! This is my first photo so I apologize if the quality's a little off. There are various other sections and forms I've created which I hope to post soon if anyone is interested. On a final note, I've been browsing everyone's planner pics for a long time now and am SO glad there are others out there with the same passion for planners and paper that I have.
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
Anbrie wanted a goth prom, so she created her own gothic look. Hit the L key to view the detail on her eye makeup. She did an amazing job! See the anbrie tag if you'd like to view other photos I've taken of this young lady.
Fiberstrobe V3 home-made flash adapter for macro photography. The idea is to channel the light of one flash using fiber optic cables. I used 30 1mm diameter strands in one arm made of 1/4 loc-line modular hose. This enables the flexible and stable positioning of my light. You can attach any kind of light modifier to the end of the arms. You can see as example a gobo, a snoot, a diffuser and a mini beauty dish.
Here you can see the wireless fiberstrobe V3 in action using 4 GoBos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fiberstrobe/5253684857/
and some results with it:
www.flickr.com/photos/fiberstrobe/5458657638/
www.flickr.com/photos/fiberstrobe/5458653284/
www.flickr.com/photos/fiberstrobe/5481347363/
www.flickr.com/photos/fiberstrobe/5270658851/
Strobist info: Main on-board flash with a DIY ring adapter. Second flash was triggered optically and illuminating the background (it could be whiter).
my blog: fiberstrobe.blogspot.com/
Fossil Messenger bag with photo inserts as a DIY bag for my Fujifilm X setup. I can put Fuji Xpro-1 with 56 1.2, Fuji XE-1 with 23 1.4, Fuji 35 1.4 and Fuji 60 2.4. I can also put the Fuji EF-X20 and an Ipad Air. I tried so many bags but this I really fell in love with it.
"From Hollywood to Hollywood" DIY Project.
see www.flickr.com/photos/stiveune/sets/72157653574190653 for more info :)
video of the camera working here ! : www.facebook.com/stevenmonteau/videos/452040284975555/
(This photo explains real simple how this DIY Monitor ringlight is supposed to work...)
Hello there folks,
How are you?
My name is Sebastien and i subscribed specialy because i had to share this great idea...
It's the most simple Do it Your Self Ringlight there can possible be!
I didn't see this idea around anywhere on Flickr and i searched alot for these things so if i am right i might set a new trend here.
Here's the thing: a friend of mine showed his new 23inch apple monitor and talked about how bright it whas and how it almost functioned as a lamp to light his room with, and demonstrated it to me in the dark.
I had my new Canon 30D with me and all the sudden i thought, yup, it's big, it's bright... Hey! it's a great candidate for a ringlight.!
So we quickly created some white shapes on black backgrounds and played around with these and we had some GREAT results!
Later on when i whas alone at my moms place, i whas sitting behind her old 15inch CRT monitor and thought: would the same trick work with this small thing? Well... here are the results of that session and of other sessions too, so judge for yourself.
You want to do this too?
There are some things you must know first though.
A monitor is in the end not THAT bright, so you need a dark room with as litle other light as possible.
You also must have a camera with good ISO performance, i shot this pictures on ISO 1600, and trust me, you will need it, shutter speeds are sometimes way below 1/30.
A fast lens, with a minimal F2.8 will help you here as well, and a good lowlight autofocus too, there is always manualfocus ofcourse.
Then when you match the most of these requirements there is only one thing left to do:
Point your camera at your face with it's back facing the monitor in the middle of your DIY ringlight shape , hold very still and say:... Cheese!!!
I Added some "Monitor Ringlights" (as i call them), so you can take of right away.
So have fun, it's the easiest way to find out what a ringlight will do to your pictures.
Greetings,
Sebastien,
the netherlands
You will need :
1 x Stainless steel small-hole sink filter
1 x inexpensive filter with the needed diameter
Tools
1 x electric driller (I used an electric screw driver)
1 x scissors for metal
1 x permanent marker
8mm, 7mm and 4 mm drill bits
Black paint
Process
1. Unscrew the ring that hold the glass on the filter and remove the glass from the filter frame.
2. Put the filter frame over the sink filter and mark a circle using the inner part.
3. Enlarge the central hole of the sink filter with the 8mm drill bit. 6 to 10mm drill bits will work too.
4. Enlarge external holes with the others drill bits, you can experiment for desired results holding the sink filter in front of the camera lens and shotting. I made 4mm holes on the fist circle and 7mm holes on half of the holes of the external circle.
5. Once you get the results you wanted cut the external part of the sink filter with the scissors and then adjust it to fit on the filter frame.
6. Paint it black (optional) and mount it on the filter frame using the ring.
7. Enjoy it at maximum aperture!
By the way, I used a 50mm lense at f1,8. I do not think it will work with lenses with apertures smaller than f3,5.
PS please take this as a starting point to experiment, and not as a final point!
I love buttons! Well... who doesn't?
You can see the DIY project on my blog: blog.nataliarosin.com/2010/07/diy-button-bracelet-part-i....
I'm kinda' a DIY sorta' guy, and so I really enjoy building my own sorts of lighting devices, clamping/mounting systems, along with doing some basic electronic modifications. All of this is quite in line with the whole Strobist way of thinking and working, and I've been meaning to post some of my DIY builds onto Flickr for some time. What you see above is a simple lil' device that's turned out to be amazingly handy for me -- insanely handy at times -- and It's also pretty dang' cheap to build (about $2.20). Five of these suckers in the kit bag costs less than a pound of (good) coffee.
Basically, what I have here is a clamp that's strong enough to hold some fairly heavy lighting gear, and a long enough spud sticking out of the clamp so that an umbrella stand/hot shoe mount can be screwed down onto it. I regularly mount my small Chimera Soft Box onto this clamp, a Photoflex hot shoe mount, a Vivitar 285 (with either E-bay trigger or Pocket Wizard), etc, etc...
All of the parts for this (or very similar parts) can be found at Home Depot, Lowe's, Ace Hardware, whatever... You might have to do a bit of poking around in order to find the most important part of this set-up (the "coupling nut"), though you'll likely discover all sorts of other fun and interesting stuff while wandering around. Here's the full parts and price list:
Home Depot "Greenie" Clamp -- $.99
One inch long, 5/16th Coupling Nut -- $.80
One-and-a-quarter inch, 5/16th-20 bolt -- $.24
**Note** I was just e-mailed and told that a 5/16th bolt has an "18 thread, not a 20."
Two Flat Washers -- $.12
One Split Washer (a/k/a: "locking washer") - $.05
Construction of this should be fairly obvious once you have all the parts together, though some drilling (with a 5/16th bit) will be necessary in order to get the bolt through the handle of the clamp.
All in all, this is quite similar to a clamping device that Mr. Strobist (David Hobby) used in his "Speed Lighting a Gym" tutorial, though I do think that the use of the coupling nut is a bit of an improvement. The hexagonal design of the nut keeps any sort of object that's mounted onto the clamp from shifting or spinning around.
Here's a link to Strobist's "Speedlighting a Gym" article:
strobist.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-assignment-speedlighting...
Myself, I've included some real world examples of the clamp in use along with this posting. Just click through the slideshow for the next two images.
*****************December 10th -- A Quick Heads Up*****************
For those of you who have an interest in some of the other DIY gear that I've been working on, I have a very brief posting on my blog (doesn't everyone have a blog these days?) in which I show a really crappy photo of a new strobe mount that I've just built -- a flexible strobe mount with a big clamp at one end of the arm. If the "click link" above doesn't work, here's how to find my blog:
www.theglobalphotographer.blogspot.com
I'll end up writing quite a bit more material about the flexible strobe mount in just a few more days -- still doing a shakedown cruise with it -- for the moment, what I have up on the blog is sorta' a sneak preview
Matt
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This was made for my daughter for Christmas using an unfinished wood cube shelf from Joanns as a base, and the rest of the wood elements cut at Home Depot. We are really pleased with the results and she loves it!
DIY 28 mm f/ 2.8 tilt-shift lens MacGyvered from a Tokina lens, a bicycle tire inner tube, a body cap, and some wire ties.
This little guy is so fun to use.
By the way, I have now reached the point where I have more of these DIY tilt lenses than I need. If anyone would like to buy rather than build one, please visit www.johnnyoptic.com/tilt-lenses.
This is my DIY Beauty Dish. It is 18" and made from a pressed bamboo
bowl I found at a pottery store. I blogged the details of how I built
it on LightandPixels.com.
Strobist info: uh, well, shot with using a SB600 hand held through a Lumiquest III soft box mostly. That last shot though was just the beauty dish aimed back at me with it's SB800 in side.
www.recyclart.org/2014/02/diy-pinecone-owl-hedgehog/
A nice DIY tutorial found at WhiMSy love blog that show you how to made those tiny owl and hedgehog from pine cones. Very simple to do and soooo cute!
More information: WhiMSy love website !
Attempt at a DIY Beauty Dish. The results are rather impressive, and we'll now use these guys in the field!
Full story, and more photos on the blog!
The full write up for this project is on my blog.
I now have photos of my v.2 bracket up here: www.flickr.com/photos/kangster/sets/72157621728749160/. The new version is not as compact but can take full advantage of E-TTL and auto focus assist.
the third incarnation of the pinholga's shutter. i got the idea of using a floppy disk from found photograph's this blog entry. this one is customized for the holga though. it was much easier and faster to make than the last version:
1. cut off the part of the disk that has the spring-loaded protector. the disk i got had some soft paper coating inside which i removed as well.
2. make a small cut here and bend the corner up to make a small "handle" that can be used to push the floppy door open. i glued a little piece of foam there to make it less slippery for the cable release.
3. i decided to enlarge the opening as much as possible. i just used a pocket knife to cut away some of the plastic that's blocking part of the opening. this may not be necessary if you decide the existing opening is wide enough for your setup.
4. mount the shutter to the camera. i taped strips of the foam which's self-adhesive on one side, to the edges of the disk so it leaves some room to let the shutter slide open and close. then i just taped the whole thing onto the camera. i added the foam piece on top to block any light that might get to the pinhole when the shutter is closed.
5. you can use the shutter the way it is by just sliding the protector open with your hand, but i decided to use a cable release. i had some ideas about mounting it but in the end i just taped it onto the shutter. we'll see if it lasts or not.