DIY

About a year and a half ago I attempted to do my first DIY piece of equipment for use with my photography. Ever since then I have always been interested in finding ways to cheaply make some thing that works great and at least looks good instead of buying some of the many overpriced items out there sold to photographers.

One area that I have deeply dove into is DIY light modifiers for hot shoe flashes. Snoots, grids, (hopefully) softboxes and many other items that can be found. I read various websites with tutorials featuring such items and I get countless ideas to create my own equipment!

I plan to share my journey on here as well as show some of the own processes I go through to create these items. The biggest thing is that I will be trying to make the items look "good", look like something that should belong on your camera and something that a client wont notice is really a $2 PVC pipe or part of a cereal box. Thats one area that many of the tutorials fail to show or complete. Many of the other tutorials are meant to be something to do during downtime, just for fun, ignoring the fact that there are many photographers such as my self that are unable, or unwilling to spend $125 on an item when I can make it for $10.

In a day or two I will make my first post in this series.