One day I decided to make a holgamod for my camera and started with “Holga Splitzer“. Several days ago I had a delicious pizza diner and used the cardboard pizza box and some duct tape to make my “Holga Splitzer” – holgamod.
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Ever wonder how magazine like photos are taken? Check out this simple DIY Briese like reflector, you can make some cool beauty style head shots with it. This is probably not the best example, and the parabolic reflectors are generally much larger than this one. But you might understand that just an ordinary cardboard reflector with aluminum foil pasted on the reflecting side, can produce pretty good results.
After the last session I was really pissed off about my Cactus V2s trigger. Every time I moved the flash tripod my flash was falling down because the screw on the trigger was loose, I tried to tighten it up but it was no use, the plastic was rubbed off there and it slips down very easy. So I came up with this idea.
1. Drill a hole in the metal bracket 5mm in diameter.
2. Stick the screw in the whole and tighten the nut.
3. You are ready to fire !
So you have 2 holes to screw in, and you can change it any time you need. Pretty easy and fast to make.
Some long time ago I saw a post on DIYphotography “Super Macro Your Cellphone Camera With A DVD Lens“, and I decided to try and make the same thing only with the laser pen I’ve got dusting around for quite a while. I made a step by step tutorial how to make a macro lens for iPhone or any other cellphone as well.
1. Get yourself a laser pen.
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Today I decided to make a matchbox pinhole camera. Not so complicated, I used only an empty matchbox, a lot of black tape, empty film canister and an aluminum square I cut from a beer can with a pinhole. And that’s my pinhole camera.
For some time I tried to think how can I combine a studio softbox and a small studio flash. Today I found a good tip how to use a studio softbox with a small camera flash Yanik’s Photo School demonstrates how you can make your own flash rig using standard studio equipment, it’s really easy. Only one more thing I want to figure out is how can I use my studio reflectors with my small flash. If you have any suggestions drop a comment.
Today I want to share thees portrait lighting diagrams with you folks ! I think they will come in handy for someone. I made those from a book that is called “The book of light”, I didn’t found any diagrams in this book that’s why I made them from the description under every photo. Have fun !
Today I’ll post more videos about how to make water splash photos.
This video shows how to take water drop photos with 1 flash, a sheet of paper and a water tank, no fancy equipment needed !
How to make a quick studio in a small flat. I’ll definitely use something from this video.
When I’ve got my Bowens kit I had just 1 reflector, umbrella and a softbox. After some time shooting I realized that I need a gridspot, so I went to a photo store with my kit reflector. The salesmen said that they don’t have the grid for my kind of reflector and also my reflector doesn’t support gridspots. He suggested me a reflector with a gridspot for $100.
