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diy christmas: homemade holiday recipes and...

Oh,the holidays. For some, the winter celebrations bring added worry and stress, or while for...

how to make a solar eclipse lens filter for $15...

With the Great American Eclipse on August 21,2017, only weeks absent, and I decided to put together...

how to clean your camera sensor: a tutorial for...

The conception of cleaning the sensor on your camera is a frightening prospect for many...

how to make your own leather camera strap for...

Bored of the standard camera strap that came with your camera? In this 37-minute video by Nick...

this diy globe helps you browse your travel photos...

Have you ever found yourself sitting and watching someone browsing through their travel...

quick tip: how to make a creative bokeh backdrop...

In this creative 2-minute tutorial,Ukranian photographer Anya Anti demonstrates how to produce an...

how to customize the bokeh in photos using a laser...

whether you’re into photography, chances are that you’ve seen the tutorials where you are...

light painting with a paper tube and a shower...

After our flight to NYC got canceled final summer,we got stuck in Chicago for one night with no...

how to shoot underwater portraits without anyone...

For a long time,I have been building sets or props for my images, which in time developed into...

using a single diy globe modifier for simple,...

It’s not often I bag to shoot very simple,clean white light shots, but in a recent shoot the model...

this instant camera takes pictures and prints them...

How accurately do you expect your camera to be in representing the genuine world? whether your...

how i gave my rolling camera case diy giant wheels

The Think Tank Logistics Manager 30 is my absolute favorite when it comes to all the camera...

7 easy diy light modifiers for creative shadows in...

Here’s a 5-minute video by photographer Bill Lawson that shares 7 different DIY gobos...

make a diy automated turntable for product...

Here’s a 2-minute tutorial overview from Circuito that will note you how to make your own...

how to add creative lighting to plain backdrops...

This short 2-minute video from photographer Svitlana Vronska demonstrates some clever lighting...

how to make a diy softbox from a bicycle wheel and...

Need something fun to build this weekend? This step-by-step tutorial will indicate you how to turn...

how to build a simple sound trigger for high speed...

Are you stressed? What better way to de-stress is there than to rupture things while making icy...

i built an instax drone for aerial instant photos

Over the last 5 years,drones maintain consumed every section of my life. From using aerial systems...

the developist is an in development diy auto film...

A truly mass-market (and widely adopted) at-home automatic film processing machine has yet to seem...

this modified polaroid camera prints photos on...

Polaroid cameras are fun to exhaust,but shooting tall numbers of instant photos can get very...

how to shoot polaroid i type film in a old...

Here’s a tutorial on how you can shoot Polaroid i-Type instant film in an broken-down Polaroid 600...

this motion detecting wildlife camera was made...

Want a remote motion-activated wildlife camera without shelling out immense bucks? You can build one...

10 diy photo gifts for the holidays

Trying to assume of a photography-related present for a photography-obsessed person in your life?...

8 photography hacks you can do with cardboard

In this 4-minute video from COOPH,learn how to hack your way to better photos using cardboard....

here s how one photographer keeps his sony camera...

After the highly anticipated Sony a9 began landing in the hands of photographers, there were some...

how to build a dirt cheap diy ring light

Ring lights are a mighty piece of kit for illuminating your subject evenly and creating a...

how to make a diy foot pedal remote shutter...

I own been looking into shooting other sports external of the motorsport world,and I own been...

how to make and shoot a bokehlicious tin foil...

I appreciate bokeh and wanted to incorporate it into some upcoming holiday-themed beauty shoots....

this guy made a real potato camera

When low-quality photos or videos are posted online,people often say that they were shot with a...

how to build and use diy strip light modifiers for...

conclude you delight in making your own lighting gear instead of spending hefty fees for commercial...

this lego instax camera is 90 years old

Albertino of Instax Magic created a unique camera that blends the used and the original. Half of it...

photo studio polyboards and thrifty alternatives

Nearly every professional studio I’ve ever used has these “polyboards” and you‘ve probably...

how to make a diy leather camera harness for under...

Leather harnesses look super stylish,but they can cost upwards of $200 retail. What’s a...

this guy built an aluminum medium format camera at...

Photographer Lucus Landers has built one of the most impressive do-it-yourself cameras we’ve ever...

how to make a portrait backdrop for $5 with dollar...

Professional portrait backdrops can cost over $1000 apiece. whether you’d like to salvage creative...

how to make a diy pinhole lens with a camera body...

acquire a camera body cap lying around collecting dust? Did you know that you can easily turn it...

making collodion from scratch

A few days ago,for the first time ever in my experience with wet plate photography, I mixed up...

how to cut a window into a backdrop for shafts of...

In this 5-minute video from The Slanted Lens, learn how to create a window in a seamless and add...

this guy built an instant camera that prints...

Instagif is a fresh camera thats what you would win if you crossed a Polaroid instant camera with...

removing a stuck lens filter… with a bandsaw

Adam Savage,one of the guys you’ll recognize from MythBusters, recently had a friend near to him...

here s how one photographer cured his sony a9...

After the highly anticipated Sony a9 began landing in the hands of photographers, there were some...

this photographer couldn t afford his dream...

London-based photographer Paul Kohlhaussen has a wish list of cameras he’d love to shoot with,but...

this $6 flea market projector lens is surprisingly...

While browsing a flea market,photographer Mathieu Stern came across an obsolete slide projector and...

diy lighting performance boosters

For many years,I have been modifying and adapting lighting and camera equipment to better fit my...

an instax camera with a leica m lens

helpful photos have become commonplace. Smartphones have demystified camera technicalities in the...

combining a hasselblad 500c m and a fujifilm...

Instant photos are magical. They develop before your eyes. You can share them,gift them, spill water...

this guy flipped an element in an old lens and got...

Iranian photographer Alireza Rostami has been studying and tinkering with lenses for years,and a few...

i built a 22″ gridded beauty dish for $4 using...

I recently got bored and decided to expand a super-budget project I’m working on. I adore gridded...

8 diy photo filters you can make at home

whether you’re looking to add a creative touch to your photos, you can consider making a DIY lens...

building an 8×10 large format camera entirely by...

Photographer Dieter Schneider started building cameras approximately five years ago,and last year he...

this guy sliced off the viewfinder of his sony...

Here’s one of the more strange camera modifications we’ve seen: a Chinese photographer over in...

going open source to make your own loupedeck...

There is an extremely talented landscape photographer called Thomas Heaton whose YouTube videos I...

how to build a led wand light for $30

In this 8-minute video by Macroscope Pictures,learn how to build a color changing wand light with...

develophead is an auto agitation cap for film...

While some tinkers are building automated at-domestic solutions for film processing such as the...

standard 4×5: a large format camera you assemble...

The Standard 4×5 is a unique 3D printed large format camera that’s perfect for aspiring large...

how i made a frankencamera digital tlr

I really enjoyed reading the Photography: The Definitive Visual History and it got me thinking...

how we made a mobile darkroom for a homemade...

In December 2015,Shane Arsenault and I had started talking approximately a joint photography project...

this is the world s fastest camera slider, built...

Daniel DeArco has created what he claims to be the “world’s fastest camera slider.” Capable...

smooth 360° bullet time rig made from some wood...

We’ve seen a lot of creative setups for faking that ‘bullet time’ look—one guy strapped his...

this $10 diy periscope lets you shoot underwater...

Want a cheap way of shooting legal under the surface of water without having to buy a special...

this guy made an 8×10 large format video camera

Photographer Zev Hoover has created a rather strange camera: it’s one of the world’s first 8×10...

how i built a star tracker for dslrs

My name is Gerald Gattringer,and Im a photographer based in Austria. I recently built myself a...

photographer makes a 100% accurate replica of the...

Photographer Cole Rise has a deep obsession with space cameras. So deep,that he just spent over two...

how to build a diy triangle led light

There are plenty of tutorials on the web for how to create DIY ring lights, but this build has a...

this is a $10,000 canadian selfie stick

After watching the spread of the selfie stick over the past several years, photographer Peter...

turn a broken laptop s screen into a view camera...

Iranian photographer Alireza Rostami loves experimenting with camera equipment, from flipping a lens...

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