Tips to keep in mind when shooting travel street photography

If you frequent DIY Photography, the name Eric Kim should be familiar to you. An international street photographer and teacher, Kim knows a thing or two about capturing photos on the street, whether he’s using a small, analogue Leica or lugging around a DSLR. Today, he’s decided to share a few of his street photography [...]

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How to make the world’s cheapest flash diffuser for only $0.02

The humble popup flash.  Let’s face it, we hate it. You might be able to use it for a little fill now and again, but as a main light source it gives hard shadows, often harsh specular highlights, and is generally the last type of lighting you would ever consider using, but for those times when you have nothing else [...]

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Don’t fall victim to “What ifs”

Recently I was wandering around that Facebook thing because it is the ultimate procrastination tool. I can’t say I remember what I was putting off, but I’m so glad I was.  Through a series of countless random clicks on god knows what links, I wound up on an event page with an open invitation to [...]

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Creating cinemagraphs for the beauty genre

  I wanted to do a beauty/cinemagraph project for a long while. About two years ago, I saw the site cinemagraphs.com. Their fashion cinemagraphs were extremely tastefully done. I really enjoyed viewing the images. These images really consumed my mind for a while. I’ve been looking for a photographer to collaborate with and create images in the [...]

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How to install Photoshop keyboard shortcuts in GIMP

With Adobe’s long standing global domination and the current buzz around Affinity’s recent announcement of impending Windows versions of their software, it’s easy to forget that there is another application out there that can satisfy the needs of a good number of photographers, especially those who run Linux. That application is GIMP.  One of the [...]

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How to adapt Large Lee filters to the Nikon 14-24mm (and other wide lenses)

I love my Nikon 14-24mm lens but it has one drawback; you can’t put filters on it. Not that one needs to use a huge selection of filters on ultra-wides but if you’re doing certain kinds of photography being able to use an ultra-wide combined with ND filters makes the composition or time lapse more [...]

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Hack a 50 year old Russian film camera and repurpose its lens for modern DSLRs

When it comes to ridiculously cheap but very useful lenses, you’d be hard pushed to beat 40+ year old Russian technology, and this suggestion from Mathieu Stern is no exception. We’ve shown you a few repurposed lenses in the past, but this one’s a little more readily available and quite a bit less expensive. Torn from the clutches of a Smena [...]

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DIY: How to turn 35mm film canisters into compact SD card holders

If you’re anything like me, you likely have a dozen or more empty film canisters scattered about your drawers. While there’s no shortage of DIY projects you can make using them, here’s one you might not have come across before. Instructables user mxx has shared how you can easily turn 35mm film canisters into a [...]

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DIY: How to organize your messy cords and cables using only zip ties

Most of the DIY projects we share here at DIY Photography are based specifically around photography gear. That isn’t the case this time around, but that doesn’t mean this clever little DIY hack can’t make your life a heck of a lot easier. Today, we’ve come across a unique little trick to organize ables and [...]

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