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Originally meant to sit atop a recoiless rifle, the AN/TVS (starlight star-bright) Vietnam era night vision system has been modified to accept a Meade DSI focal plane array. This image is a result of that marriage, and a happy one it is
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
- Thanks to everyone who looked at my picture, favors and have commented. Please press "L" or "Z" for a large view - an absolute must to fully enjoy this picture!
This looks like a big project for someone ..... well and truly worn and weathered!
7 Days of Shooting Week #22 In The Street Worn and Weathered Thursday ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
For Macro Monday theme - Typography
HMM!
Antique bottle of that once contained rootbeer extract - the colors are from a patina of mineral deposits, probably from sitting in a trash heap somewhere for many decades.
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 first attempt at the DIY Bokeh wall. Switched to one of my most treasured items. A custom-made Star Wars Imperial Crest in a ring made of stainless steel, ceramic and black diamond. One further addition, the Darth Vader laser pointer I usually use to play with the cats.
This weekend, relaxation took the form of making these adorable, catnip-filled felt toys. When you use a template to trace the cutouts (you can print the templates I made for this project!), it's actually very easy to put them together.
DIY flash bounce, I used the template from this tutorial.
Just printed out the template and cut the foam thing to shape and glued the wide flexible band to it with contact adhesive to keep it in shape and for easy attaching to the flash. It took about 15-20 minutes to do and most of it went to waiting the glue to dry.
The second picture is just to show how small it goes for the camera bag. Total cost was less than 1€ so it was very much worth it and it works great.
Do-it-yourself ringlight. Works fine. Data: 40 cm diameter, 40 Watts. Color temperature: 4000 Kelvin.
Costs (all parts from BAUHAUS):
Kitchen light: 23 Euros
Plywood board 50x50 cm: 4 Euros
Metal bracket: 2 Euros.
Took me perhaps two hours and was fun to build -- I just *love* to tinker :-()
Result :
www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/7230148926/
Keep in mind that you should use white balance with these neon devices.
I finally got fed up with my flatbed scans and decided to try camera scans. Because of my wedding work i have most of the equipment I need except the light source and a copy stand. The light source was easy enough, the cinestill cslite I picked up and it seems to do the job just fine but the copy stand was a different matter - too expensive or not too expensive but obviously garbage. Of course I turned to YouTube and found this really simple and inexpensive build and it seems to work great.
The Build:
15x21 bamboo cutting board as the base $20
half inch galvanized pipe, 24 inch length as the post. $11.30
Mounted to the base with a floor flange. $8.37
Wood screws x4 (pack of 10) $4.00
total cost = $43.67
Manfrotto clamp with a 3/8 to 1/4 inch adapter and my Benro ballhead attached. (already owned).
Camera: Canon r6 with 100mm f2.8 macro lens
I'm sure you already knew all this because I'm always late to the party and my desk is a mess.
You're welcome.
Field testing the diy beauty dish we made. for instructions visit the link .
enchantingkerala.org/digital-photography-school/diy_beaut...
do let me know your comments and suggestions on the project
"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/
Thanks to Muddyrabbit and his awesome bracket, this Polaroid Automatic 100 and Holga 120N are now one.
he made this "motorbike" himself, has another 5 at home. Interesting design... maybe better than my Solex from 1977. Thanks for the opportunity to do this photograph.
Pentacon 29mm F 2.8
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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.
(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 finally built my own Beautydish =)
seems to work pretty good...
The following side gave me some inspiration:
ishootshows.com/2010/02/09/music-photographers-diy-beauty...
...but instead of a stainless steel bowl I used a plastic bowl and some other variations.
Total cost: about 25€
Ask me, if you have any questions...
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Thanks to DIY site and this link DIY Bokeh for this always fun idea.
This is my crude version of trying this out. It fits right over my nifty-fifty. Yes, they're Christmas lights.
This was seen on LifeHacker
Canon 7 panoramic modification with Bronica 50mm f2.8, coupled rangefinder, 24x65mm frame, DIY. 24x65mm.
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.