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Well, after giving Shirl a little too much lip over her capabilities as a barber she down tooled so I resolved to try and carry out the haircut myself. I had last been the the barbers in early March so I was a long way overdue. The faces I am pulling can only be put down to concentration and trepidation.
At a first glance the results don't look too bad, but what you can't see is the state I made of the back of my neck. Shots taken at arms length with my iPhone.
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!).
wide angle pinehole camera. Hasselblad 12 back, 30mm focal length, prontor press shutter (from and old microscope setup), 200 µm pinhole (f 150).... and lots of light leaks.
instructions posted on my blog
As seen on:
ali edwards • creature comforts • readymade blog
Thank you for featuring my project! ♡
DIY Bikonvex Monokel 2,5/50, Blende 8
DIY Biconvex Monocle 2.5/50, Aperture 8
Ремесленные изделия: Монокль, биконусный 2.5/50, Diaphragma: 8
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.
Ink, acrylic and metallic pen on paper.
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ATC : already part of an exchange (iHanna postcard swap)
Blogged here:
www.datcha.ca/la_datcha/2011/08/19/my-big-scared-monster-...
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
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
I always have a challenge finding comfortable shoes and when I find them they are not as cute as I want them to be. So I thought why not spice up the boring shoes myself?
I used some cool lace ribbon and beads for these comfy flats,
and I love how they turned out!
Ribbon from Mokuba.
If you’re looking for woodworking projects that come with a plan, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got plans that will help you build bed frames, cabinets, and much more - woodworkinghobbies.blogspot.com
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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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
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.
My backdoor neighbor doing a little DIY tree trimming. Surprisingly he survived and didn't do any damage to his house (or mine). The trees on the other hand...
I have been wanting to do something with those little bits of hair I have left over from re-roots and it is always helpful to have actual samples of hair color since so often the doll hair sites have poor pictures. So, I made some very simple hair swatches. While they are aren't the prettiest they are useful especially when I forget what color I used and want to use it again! I have not used all the colors at RD at this point I have about 22 colors.
Here is what you need :
Stapler
Index Cards/ Construction Paper
Rubber Bands
Marker
Hole Punch
Ring to hold cards
Steps:
1. Cut hair sample to the length you desire.
2. Wrap Rubber Band around the end of the hair.
3. Cut index card in half.
4. Fold index card card in half, insert hair
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5. Staple hair into card, try to staple as close to the area surrounded by rubber band to keep secure.
5. Hole punch the corner of the card.
6. Place ring into hole, organize as you please.
7. Label hair sample with marker.