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1 Crumbling Wall with pre cut hole.
I sheet of corrugated metal.
1 can green paint.
1 can brown paint.
1 Sharpie.
HWW!
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM
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.
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.
Do not try this at home.
That van Gogh moment.
Otoplasty — also known as cosmetic ear surgery — is a procedure to change the shape, position or size of the ears.
Maybe DIY brain surgery next.
What happens when your vertical alignment is out on your Leica M8? You can either send it to Solms, get an experienced RF techie to do it or you DIY. I opted for the latter for the sake of time and the fact that some RF techies didn't want to touch it. So, I bought a the Zhou vertical tool (http://cgi.ebay.com/Vertical-Line-Focus-Adj-Tool-F-Leica-M4-2-M4p-M6-M7-MP-/170399164715?pt=Film_Cameras&hash=item27ac94e92b#ht_2091wt_940) and fixed it myself. According to the description of the tool, it doesn't cater for the M8/M9, but it does actually work with the M8 (and I assume the M9).
Although I look a bit spack-handed with DIY in the YouTube videos, but I've fixed the Epson R-D1S alignments myself so I thought the M8 couldn't be much harder. The only tough part was getting the Leica badge off, which was a bit of a toughie. What you have to do is to repeatedly push it clockwise then anti-clockwise until the glue underneath it gives way. I would advise using a plastic object (something that won't scratch) to push under the left side of the "L" and then under the right side of the tail of the "L". Finally, it will slide off, revealing bits inside. It's a bit dark inside, but shine a bright light and you can make out where the hole is. This is a special tool that fits into the slot. Some would recommend using acetone (nail polish remover) to loosen the glue up a bit so you can make the amendments.
P.S. If you are not confident in doing it, then I would strongly recommend taking it to someone who knows what they are doing. One really needs to be quite delicate with it as it's easy f*ck it up. I did it because I am chi sin.
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!
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.
Ok, here is: My DIY ring flash.
Salad Bowl, cut a hole in the middle, placed a pineapple tin can, made another square hole for the flash on the side. Made a bracket out of alumium and shaped it in the way shown above. Flash is a Canon 580ex, triggered by a cable.
The diffuser is a piece of plastic folder I had with documents :-)
The tin of pineapple has a piece of aluminium foil around it so it reflects more light. I love the lighting effect this flash produces. I will upload photos soon (When I find my model)
For DIY Beauty Dish, click here
I hope you like it, any question or comments are more than welcome.
DIY mini softbox. It's not big but it is clever.
Making one is very easy indeed. Just find any appropriately sized box, the first version I made was from a cereal packet, but I found this stronger one. Then simply cut out one side and cover it with something like tracing paper. I guess normal paper would do, but you'd get less light coming through the thicker paper. Then just cut a hole in the bottom and stick your flash up into the box.
Kind of obviously, I have found best results when you get the softbox as close to the subject as you can without it being in the shot. It would be excellent for macro type shots but its also not half bad when the subject is further away.
More softbox pics here
www.flickr.com/photos/drbenmonkey/tags/diysoftbox/
A discussion of this in the Techniques group here
www.flickr.com/groups/technique/discuss/72157600001715195/
Coool. This is currently the icon for the Techniques group :)
woo. highest position in Explore #7
I had to try this out. I took a box, some paper for engineering drawings, cut the box glued the paper to the holes and put also some paper inside. This gives indeed some very nice light and you have countless possibilities (flash or w/o flash, left right, top, all sides...).
I use a small lamp, that was unused for a long time.
Now I'm looking for a larger box with bigger holes for the light to shine through and to get the background more even. I also will get some black cloth for black backgrounds. Building this took 20 minutes at no cost, because I have a lot of this paper at home. Some test shoots will follow.
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!).