Posts Tagged ‘dslr’

DIY Macro Lighting LED Ring

A while back we had a piece about the power of using LEDs in photography. In that article we had a very primitive LED ring light. In this guest post, Tim Brook shares a much better way to create a LED ring light.

Browsing through the dealextreme website, I came across these LED car headlight rings and thought that they’d be ideal for making a Macro Lighting Ring so I placed my order and had a go.

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Nikon camera cakes

After a long day of shooting and composing your photo. It would be nice and relaxing to sit down and have a cup of coffee and cake. What will you feel if you cake turn out to look exactly just like your DSLR? The cakes by debbiedoescakes have been sculpted with a level of realism that is truly awe-inspiring even matching the color of the cameras to that of the originals and as for the mind blowing detailing. These cake look so real that at first glance one may thought it is a real camera. Do remember to celebrate with your love one with this camera cake if photography is their hobby, he or she definitely will be surprise and love the cake.

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Another home make flash diffuser

Here is another very simple diy flash diffuser.

The material you need:
1) cupboard (Black in colour)
2) Aluminum foil
3) soft transparent paper

The creator of this diy flash diffuser did not put up any guide, he only show 2 pics of the final product.

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Pink DSLR – Nikon D90

Someone from DigitalRev painted this award wining DSLR, Nikon D90 in pink colour. This is not an easy DIY i recommend you people not to try it. Watching the video posted by them, he drop the camera once, damage the LCD and the flash opening. After which he still send it to Nikon service centre for servicing. LOL, he told the counter staff that his cousin was the one that paint it in pink while he was sleeping. Watch the video he will show you how he painted the Nikon D90 in pink and near the end of the video also show him visiting the Nikon service centre.

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“Photo grandpa” builds mother of all homebrew laser triggers

This is an awesome homebrew laser-triggered camera rig that is uses to capture amazing pictures of insects in flight and splashing drops of coloredwater.  Fotoopa (creator) makes the compelling claim that no digital camera has the shutter speed necessary to do this kind of imagery. He claims the Compur #1 shutter used in his 2008 setup has a speed of less than 5 milliseconds. Technical details about his 2009 setup are available here.