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Cheap DIY (Homemade) Muslin Photography Background

This project had the website diyphotography.net in mind and strives to help develop it into a vibrant online community. This backdrop is similar to those sold online for a couple hundred dollars! But...

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DIY - Studio Equipment: Greenscreens and Backdrop Stands

This article will explain how to design and assemble bluescreens, greenscreens and backdrops for photos and video, as well as how to easily and inexpensively build a portable frame to support these...

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Spice Up Your Home Made Muslin Backdrop

DIYP reader, Jerry, made a great comment on the process of making a tie-dye muslin backdrop.It appears that Jerry remembers those happy days from when Tie-Dye was in fashion, and hair was the best show...

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An Ode To My Power Supply Unit + Setup Shot

There comes a time at any man's life, where he enters their workroom oh-my-god-kids-what-is-going-on-room and something smelled funny. Smells metallic. Burning. My socks on fire? No.... What is it?...

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Avoiding The Double Reflection

On my Ode to my Power Supply Unit post I got quite a few comments about that nasty double reflection. I just had to fix this. The reason for this reflection is that a glass board has some thickness so...

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Double Your Light Stand As A Portable Backdrop Mount System

In the following article, Martin Kimeldorf will show us how to make a backdrop stand that can be mounted on your I-carry-it-anyway lightstand. I don’t like to carry a ton of photo stuff. The notion of...

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Ghetto Flower Setup

A few weeks ago I stumbled across Sandra Freeman's photography site. I was captured by her stunning life-like flower images. I then asked Sandra to share her photography ideas with DIYP readers. Gladly...

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43 Photography Hacks, Mods And DIY Projects

My gift to you readers for DIYP 3rd Year Aniversarry - 43 Photography Hacks, Mods And DIY Projects. (And some shameless self promotion) Light Modifiers 1. Homemade Speedlite "Snoot" 2. The Best...

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Going From Bedroom To Studio To Bedroom In 108 Seconds

Photographer James Burger walks us through a 108 seconds journey of converting his bedroom into a studio and back. And he does that stop motion, no less. (If you are reading this via RSS, you may want...

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Studio @ Home - Small Backdrops & Backgrounds

OK, so you have your space, and ready to take your first shot on your new studio. One of the first things that you'll need is background. Whether you're doing a product shot or a full portrait,...

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Studio @ Home - Full Scale Backdrops & Backgrounds

On the last post we saw how easy it is to set a "backdrop" for any small object. In this post, we will continue to explore backdrop solutions, only this time the focus is going to be on full scale...

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One. Two. Three. White Background

How do you take a lovely portrait like this, on a perfect white background? Of course you'll need a beautiful model. But how would you handle the lighting? Just throw about 10000 Watts/Seconds on your...

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Infinite White

Did anybody say obsessed? OK, I'll admit it. Over the last month or so, I've been obsessing with home studio tweaks - backgrounds and seamless whites in particular. No wonder too. I'm about to enter my...

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Endless Backdrops (And Patterns) For a Penny

Two things about backdrops.1. Studio backdrops are not cheap.  A single color muslin backdrop can cost up to 30$ and the fancy ones with patterns can cost even more.2.  Backdrops take space. No matter...

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Build a Back-Lit Slope Backdrop For Better Product Photography

The following article is a guest post by Ilya Titov, a photographer and web designer, who also runs a great blog at blog.webboggles.com. Are you a photographer who needs to take dozens of high quality...

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Using Plexi As A Photography Tool

I'm gonna talk about Plexi in a moment, but first, Happy Halloween everyone. OK, Plexi.  It is very common for a product shot to be built from two symmetrical halves, the product on top and a...

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S@H - Change Your Studio Appearance With Instant Flooring

One of the comments I got when I started the Studio @ Home series was about flooring. I mean not *all* of our pictures are seamless white. Some pictures are taken with the floor and background as part...

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Create Seamless White Portraits In Your... Anywhere

I've had it happen when I heard a veteran photog telling another, "This one? You cannot do this one, you don't have the gear".Now, as the name of the site suggests, this is not what I consider a good...

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Pimping A Compete Strobist Studio

UPDATE: Looks like Kurbster droped out of flickr taking the very excellent set of strobist studio with him. I am going to leave the post here as the text still has value, although the images were...

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Three Chroma Key Solutions For The DIY Photographer

The following post about 3 ways to DIY your Chroma Key was made by Ben Eadie of DVRebelGear.com.There are several ways to get a decent chroma background for a photo for the DIYer and the results are...

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