11 DIY Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers
By DIY Maven
Digital Lighting School put together a list of 11 different lighting hacks that just might turn you into an okay photographer into a good or even great one. In case you missed them, they are:
- A Multi-Super-SB-Ring Light, made out of six speedlight flashes and a coffee can.
- Next, a Poor Man's Ring Flash, fashioned out of a used plastic milk jug.
- Or how about an inexpensive light tent?
- And the can't-get-much-simpler Party Bouncer Card, pictured above.
- As well as the Turkey Pan Beauty Dish, which is my favorite just 'cuz of the name.
- There's also the DIY Ghetto Flash Extender.
- And the ever helpful disposeable camera flash slave,
- a Flash Mounted DIY Softbox,
- Flash Bouncers, made out of craft foam,
- a Full Budget (Friendly) DIY Lighting Studio,
- and finally, The Fring - a DIY Flash Ring.
Follow this jump for further explanations and links to individual how-tos.
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Just in as much as he's telling us to turn our flashes off and find northern exposure for indoor shots. We did talk about artificial lighting but he feels an entire class needs to be devoted to it. As an artist, he prefers shooting in natural light--I don't think I've seen anything by him that WASN'T shot in natural light--so he may not be the guy to teach it. (He showed us a shot he took of pears indoors near sunset. It was stunning, and perfectly lit from a window.)
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Listen Maven, I am soooo frustrated with photography lighting. Tutorials seem to use terms I, as a beginner, don't know. I have two free standing lights with nylon umbrellas. I move them all around and up and down, side to side. My photos don't have that nice, soft, professional look. I don't use my camera flash due to the harshness. I have read multiple tutorials. (learning challenged) Is your teacher really teaching you lighting techniques?
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