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Here's more of a closeup of the fence. It is made up of pressure treated lumber (4x4 posts, 2x4's and 2x2's) and 1/2" conduit bars.
This bear rug made from used jeans. See more photos here: lakbear.blog.hu/2016/01/13/kevesebbol_tobb
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Timmy supervising the making of the bathroom cabinet.
Okay, so she was actually just playing with her rubber snake and getting in the way!
:-)
DIY L-bracket, made from the cheeseplates I normally use as base for a Video Rig.
This product-shots were made within 10 minutes with a Canon Powershot A2400 camera mounted on a tripod.
A halogen ceiling lamp and a halogen table lamp were used as light source. (NO FLASH USED!!)
I was very surprised with the result and sharpness from this 60,00 Euro camera, but next time I will switch off the auto white balance...
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Hasselblad 100 polaroid back
Halina A1 ( broken shutter)
Fuji film pack
Cardboard
1. The back orginally take 6cm X 6cm image only.
Unscrew all the big screw from the polaroid back. Remove the metal plate.
Now the light can expose to whole image area.
2. The Halina case's width is smaller than the Back's opening.
So I use a cardboard to make a smaller opening so the case can glue on the Back.
Notice the measurements of the cardboard is smaller than the film pack's, and one edge is wider than the other.
you will know why if you look at the film pack position while its sitting in the Back.
The film pack area is larger than the actual image area anyway.
3. Glue the cardboard onto the Back.(*the wider edge goes to the locking bar of the Back)
4. Before glueing the Back to the camera. Test the focus and Image size.
Halina A1 uses a 80mm lens so the focal length is 80mm at infinity, so it won't focus at infinity if you place the back further than that.
becoz of the back and the cardboard the closest i got is around 90mm.
Image size: the diagonal of the image is = the focal length so 80mm (+/-20%)
but since i placed it further it will be bigger.
I used a thin white paper and placed it at where the film normally goes to test the focusing and image size.
the image size was actually near full image.
After all that glue the Back and camera together.(*the locking bar is at the bottom) I try to use velcro before, but the camera moves around ...
so i decided to glue it, only a few pounds after all. I used the velcro for extra weight support now.
it can holds up to 15Kg!!
5. inside the Halina you will notice the knob is in the way.
simply unscrew it and then the top spring out and screw it back. Use tape to block the knob from sticking out inside.
**** It was an unforturnate that the shutter is broken. Now i need a cap or just tape the lens..
TEST SHOT HERE:
It is nice to take water pipe wherever you go. But, it is big and heavy. Not enymore! Thanks to this simple, yet great design you can take your own water pipe with you on party, park, hiking, skiing, even on swimming as it floats! You actually dont need to take whole asembly. Leave bulky bottle at home...you dont need it. This design use standrd PET bottle cap that fits on every bottle you can find. Go ahead, make one and haaave FUN!
; )
Because a bigger diffused lightsource makes softer shadows!
- Take a shoebox
- Cut a hole the size of your flash head out from the bottom.
- Aluminium-foil the inside of the box so there the light doens't get absorbed by the cardboard.
- Use white paper (chalk paper) for the outside.
Idea by AJ French
DIY Blende fรผr Carl Zeiss Triplet 2,8/100
Ich habe eine Vorsatzblende fรผr das Objektiv gedruckt und mit einem Adapterring (Orange) an den Filteranschluss angepasst.
Quelle fรผr die Blende:
Iris Diaphragm for Steampunk Goggles by IrisCalculator
Published on January 6, 2017
www.thingiverse.com/thing:2019585
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Why spend money on flash modifiers when you can make your own?
***throw away your gary fong dong!
Everyone thought i was going for BBQ when they saw me carting in these aluminium foil trays.
Here, i made a re-mod of the traditional dish into a beauty "tray" :) hehe, ok i fess up, the store ran out of circular foil bowls, which is why i resorted to this tray, but i have more plans to remod this to something else, but thats for another day.
All you need is some tape, 2 trays and a cutting knife.
Strobist: Nikon SB-800 off camera on beauty "tray" at 1/32 power, Nikon SB-25 on camera at 1/16 power, ceiling bounce.
Sawed the attachment bits off a Velo Orange decaleur and threaded the remaining tubes. These are then bolted to a small piece of aluminum plate, which is again bolted to the stem on top of the faceplate.
www.recyclart.org/2014/03/diy-reversible-tote-bag/
The tote bag is an essential accessory for everyday life: itโs used to take your lunch to work/school, to carry groceries, or your gym clothes to work! The tote bag can come with designs or promote a cause that you find worthy of sharing with the world. Although tote bags are pretty easy to make if you are graphic artist you might prefer to create a design and have it printed on tote bags like these. If you have a true DIY spirit, below is a tutorial to make your very own!
Materials:
Printed fabric of your choice, use your imagination, a tote bag must be fun! :)
Plain fabric
Matching thread and a needle
Sewing Scissors
Pins
Ruler and pencil
Tailor's chalk if your fabric is dark
Sewing machine
Iron
How to instructions :
1. Cut two rectangles of 36x42cm in the printed fabric and other two rectangles of the exact same dimensions in the plain fabric. Also, cut two strips of 9x60 cm in the plain fabric for the handles.
2. Arrange the rectangles of printed fabric (36x42cm) "face-to-face" and pin them together all the way round. Sew three sides and leaves one open (the shortest side). Do the same with the rectangles of plain fabric.
3. The handles: fold a strip of fabric 9x60cm face-to-face along the entire length to obtain a strip of 4.5x60cm. Iron to mark the fold. Prick so that it does not move and poke at 0.5cm from the edge. Return the strip: You get a kind of roll. Iron to flatten it then sew each side closest to the edge.
4. In order to give some volume to the bag, we will sew in angle the bottom corners. To do this, fold the bottom of the printed fabric bag to match the seams. With a ruler, measure 3.5cm from the tip and draw a line perpendicular to the reference seam [1]. Pin so that the fabric does not move and sew it [2]. Trim the excess fabric at 0.5cm of the seam [3]. Repeat the process for the other angle. We obtain a larger bag base with a nice volume [4]. Do the same for plain fabric bag.
5. Turn the plain fabric bag on the face and insert it inside the printed fabric bag remained upside. Tissues are face-to-face on the front side.
6. Insert a loop between the plain fabric bag and the printed fabric bag by positioning the rounded inwards and leaving more than 3 cm outward. Attach the edge of the handle at 8 cm from the side of the bag with pins. Turn your work and do the same with the other side with the second handle, taking care to properly aligning the bases of the handles so that they are facing each other.
7. Prick the two layers of fabric (plain and printed) with a pin every two inches for a perfect fit. At this stage, you should have a kind of pouch with printed fabric on outside, plain fabric inside and handles between those two layers.
8. Prick with the sewing machine all around the bag, leaving an opening of 4 inches between the handles (one side only) to allow you to revert it. To add some strength, iron once or twice on the handles fixation. Cut the surplus of plain fabric.
9. Revert the bag right side out. Two "bellows" are obtained: A plain one and a printed one, with the handles in the middle. Then, retract the plain part inside the printed part.
10. Last step: the finishes! With a matching thread and a needle, close the opening of 4 cm by pricking close to the edges in order to be invisible.
Et voilร !
Did you like it ? Did you already made one ? Send us your realizations !
Pictures: Funky Sunday website!
This post was inspired by this tutorial from Funky Sunday website!
DIY 6x9 monorail camera made of beech wood.
Shutter and lens are from a Polaroid CU 5 camera. It's a Copal shutter with up to 125th of a second and a nice T mode where the shutter stays open without being pressed like in B mode. It closes if the shutter is triggered again. The lens is a Tominon 75mm f4.5 which is a wide angle lens equal to 30mm on 135 film. The lens is able to cover 6x9 (2x3 inches) and allows some tilting and shifting too.
I'm using a filmback of a defective Mamiya Press. All the other stuff is custom made (like the bellows, the frames, the lens board etc).
Now it is time to take her out for some serious tests...
i built this little contraption onto my trusty (made in Japan) Vivitar 285HV.
i just measured it out on matte board, cut it to size, and taped it all together.
materials used:
-wax paper 4x5 neg sleeve(s)
-matte board (black on one side, white on the other)
-gaffer's tape
-matte knife
it's not the most sturdy thing, and i'm sure it wouldn't handle a drop too well (nor a strong poke), but it works pretty decently.
Examples shot here, here, here, and here.
Now i need to modify it to be removable and possibly collapsible for portability.
Inspired by some of the DIY projects at www.strobist.com, I built my own strobe-based ring flash, and I think I got a good result for hundreds less than the "real" manufactured ones. It's constructed of two sheets of clear acrylic cut out on the bandsaw to form the basic shape, some tin flashing for the reflective interior, some flexible styrofoam to form the inner and outer ring, metallic duct tape and some velcro. I think it produces a nice even ring, with little fall-off on the top side away from the flash.
Look for some shots I did with Lexi and her friends with the ring flash coming up.
Strobist: using a 550EX and Cactus V2s
DIY flash diffuser made from a country time lemonade canister and foam koozie. The whole setup cost under $4 after tax. In my opinion, aside from the purple koozie, this is one of the more professional looking diffusers I have seen. Michaels didn't have any black koozies, and my almost 2 year-old kept nagging me to get the purple one. I may make a trip out to Joannas to see if they have black, instead.
Part of my Easter set up was this pink frosted strawberry cake. ๐
Iโm trying to remember how I got the cakes boxes, Internet or if my sister gave it to me. But Iโm glad I printed two for practice!
Cake is brown model magic, set in a silicone mini mold. Painted to look like a pink cake, with spackle colored pink for frosting.
#craftybobscores
A quick-to-assemble and (when disassembled) small-in-your-car DIY backdrop frame, shown with a bedsheet (size "queen" sheet) wrapped around it.
PVC tubing purchased at, and cut to size by, my local Home Depot (my local Lowes would not cut PVC for me).
Parts List
$2.08 each - 3/4" x 10' plain end PVC (x3)
* cut to: 54",54",~
* cut to: 54",42",~
* cut to: 42",36",36",~
$0.36 each - 3/4" Tee (x2)
$0.30 each - 3/4" 90 Degree Elbow (x4)
Total cost for the frame (with tax) was $8.65
Four 2" binder clips (already had those) are used (two on top, two on the bottom) to help pull the sheet taut. These should be around 35ยข each.
Final size is around 6'10" tall and around 4'9" wide. The idea should be able to be adapted to use other sized sheets too ("full" flat sheets should work using more clips, a slightly larger frame for "king" sheets, etc.).
A couple of my contacts have asked for a walk-through on my DIY Beauty Dish, so here it is... Mine by no means looks "professional", but it really works and costs way less than buying one. If you do photography for a living, your clients probably won't think much of you if you pull this out of your bag. For a hobbyist though, it's perfect!
There are some tools you'll need to make this. If you have the tools on hand the total cost will be about $20. If you don't have the tools, you're probably better off just buying a Beauty Dish because the tool cost will be well over the cost of the Dish. My other hobby is speaker building, so I've got a basic set of MDF covered power tools =)
So as for the walk-through...
Tools:
1) Drill with a small and large metal bit.
2) Jig-saw or PVC saw with a "metal" blade.
Supplies:
1) One old wide and shallow (and METAL!!) salad dish/mixing bowl (wide and shallow is vital!).
2) An old CD/DVD plastic spindle cover.
3) Heavy grit sanding block.
4) Squeeze tube of clear silicone adhesive.
5) Black "Gorilla tape".
6) Heavy grit sanding block.
7) Masking tape.
8) Silver reflective spray paint.
Steps:
1) Use your current light modifier mount as a stencil (or if you use speedlights, use the head) and mark the back of the salad bowl for cutting.
2) Drill a pilot hole with the small metal drill bit, then drill a hole with the large bit big enough to get the jig-saw blade through.
3) Use the jig-saw (or PVC hacksaw) to cut out your mounting hole.
4) Sand the edges to remove burs.
5) Take the plastic CD/DVD spindle cover and masking tape off the bottom half.
6) Sand the exposed top part (vital!) and place several coats of silver reflective paint on the unmasked top half. Remove the masking tape from the bottom half once dry. If paint leaked down just use a rag and some rubbing alcohol to remove the over-spray.
7) Once dry, wrap the painted sides in the black "Gorilla Tape". This will force the light to bounce off the paint underneath and reflect out of the salad dish (i.e. not leak out the sides).
8) Sand the inside of the salad bowl at the base (right around the opening you cut).
9) Sand the base of the CD/DVD spindle.
10) Lay a thick bead of the clear silicon and seat the CD/DVD spindle over the mounting hole in the salad dish
11) Let dry for a couple days and voila! You've got a cheap, effective Beauty Dish!
I'm happy to answer any questions people may have! The thing to remember is that the size, shape and depth of the salad dish is the most important part! It will have the largest impact on the shape and throw of the light. Using the CD/DVD spindle will soften the light a bit. If you don't want that you can always cut holes out of the unpainted part and mount the spindle cover on "legs" to let more light out. You could use a plastic salad dish, but you'd need to paint the entire inside of it with a high gloss white or silver paint to get the light to bounce off of it.
Hopefully this was useful for people. I know the result dosen't look professional, but it works! All comments and feedback are greatly appreciated!
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!
I put this together today using foamcore, fabric, and black duct tape. Also used a bit of hardware from Lowes to hold it onto the lightstand.
With the love for journaling comes hoarding. Hoarding anything that can fit in an art journal. That means hoarding all sorts of ephemera and paper clippings. I found this tutorial on Pinterest: papiervalise.typepad.com/scissor_variations/2009/02/febru... And thought this accordion folder would be perfect for collecting my paper stash in, so I made this bunch of folders today, while watching Spiderman Homecoming ๐
Just before the step where I try to get the polish off my skin while not messing up the polish on my nails. Someday I may manage not to get it on my skin in the first place, but probably not.
Tenuous Link: veins on leaf > veins on feet
DIY Sock Monkey
This work of art, ridiculous sock toy has been a most loved of youngsters and grown-ups for quite a long time. To make your very own sock monkey, take after these strides. Discover two clean socks. The best ones can't avoid being ones with heels and toes in differentiating hues to whatever remains of the sock. Lay one sock with the heel level down. You may need to straighten the sock against its regular wrinkle to get this going. Draw an inside line on the sock from the toe to around one inch from the hued heel. Include catch eyes. To give your monkey whites on the outside of his eyes, stick or sew the catches onto a touch of white felt. At that point, with string of a differentiating shading, sew on the felt simply over the gag. You now have a delightful sock monkey!
www.recyclart.org/2012/09/patchy-snail/
Always wondered how to use those numerous fabric patches that are left after another DIY. They are too big to throw them away, but too small to do something solid out of them. So here's a suggestion - to make small cute creatures like this patchy Snail who's exploring city jungles ;)
++ More information at www.facebook.com/EasyR.Craft !
Idea sent by Anya Dany !