Make a DIY Snoot Using a Coke Bottle
You can make yourself a quick and simple snoot by cutting off the upper portion of a soda bottle and covering it with gaffer tape. While it’s definitely not the most elegant solution, it’s a cheap way to isolate your subject when shooting with a flash unit. How To Make A Snoot From A Coca-Cola...
Turn a Pringles Can into a DIY Snoot
If you have a potato chip tube lying around, you can convert the tube into a super simple DIY snoot. All you need to do is cut an opening in the closed end that’s the size of your flash head (tip: use some duct tape to prevent it from scratching your flash). To take it...
Strobist Jet Pack: A Ridiculous Looking Apparatus for Off-Camera Lighting
Photographer Jesse Rosten wanted a more efficient and mobile way to do off-camera lighting, so he invented this backpack-style apparatus that he calls “The Strobist Jet Pack”. Although it’s pretty ridiculous looking (it reminds us of Ghostbusters), it works well for placing lighting equipment in exactly the place needed while still being able to move...
How to Turn an On-Camera Flash into a Transmitter for Optical Sensors
Optical sensors are a cheap way to trigger slave flashes if you don’t want to pay for a wireless transmitter, but the fact that you’re firing your on-board flash to trigger the sensors limits your creative options. Flickr user Victor came up with the idea of turning an on-camera flash unit into an infrared transmitter...
Deconstruct This Photo 5.0 – Tell Me How It Was Done
I still deconstruct the work of other photographers all the time – it’s a great way to expand skill sets and understanding. And I know from your previous feedback that you guys are fond of these posts, so let’s dig into another one. I was asked to photograph the amazing and controversial Prince Manvendra of...
Homemade “Fiberstrobe” Uses Fiber Optics to Split Light
If Doctor Octopus were to design a DIY flash accessory, it might look a little something like this. German microbiologist Marcell Nikolausz has been experimenting with using fiber optics to split a single flash unit’s light into multiple light sources. Optical fibers are threaded through Gorillapod-style Loc-Line channels, allowing flexible and stable positioning of the...
Flash Bus Tour: Learn to Light with McNally & Strobist
These guys are a blast one on one. Put them together? Watch out. It’s a combo of awesomeness, mad science, MythBusters and the two guys in the balcony from the Muppets…. That said, if you wanna learn small flash lighting, no doubt this will be a great class and great value… Learn the fundamentals and...
New Look Strobox Even More Useful for Learning Lighting
When we featured Strobox back in 2009, it was a simple idea: provide an easy way for photographers to create lighting diagrams and share them with others. Since then, they’ve upgraded their website to include a gallery where you can browse photographs done by others, view their lighting diagrams, and comment on them. If you...
How to Shoot Things Falling into Water
Editor’s note: This walkthrough was originally published on Clint Decker’s Flickr account. We found it pretty informative and asked him to share it here. Here is a little video on how I did the photography with Canon Speedlites while dropping items into a tank of water. With a white background, I used a Canon Speedlite...
Reader Photo of the Week: Ida Workout
Ida Workout by Tarantin0 of Rasmussen Foto
Reader Photo of the Week: I Drink Alone
I Drink Alone 34/365 by dirty blue hat
