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Inexpensive Product Photography | DIY Shooting Table

Max Bridge

Product photography can be expensive. Check out this DIY shooting table solution from Alex Koloskov over at Photigy.

Make an Easy, Inexpensive, and Durable Wrist Strap For Your Camera

Hanssie

The following video caught my eye because not only is it DIY (which I love), but the wrist strap is a paracord bracelet which is very trendy at the moment.

DIY Camera Rain Cover Options

If you’re the sort that likes to DIY everything under the sun (or clouds) then I’ve got just the project for you. The guys over at DIY Photography have put together another great option for those of you looking to make a rain cover and can’t afford the $6 for an OP/TECH 18-Inch rainsleeve that come two in a pack (can you sense the sarcasm?).

$50 DIY Continuous Lighting Set-Up For Great Portraits | Aaron Nace

Kishore Sawh

For little money, you can have a 3 light set-up for taking great portrait. Aaron Nace shows you how to make it, and make the most out of it.

DIY: Inexpensive and Easy-To-Make Macro Extension Tube

Hanssie

Learn how to make this simple and inexpensive DIY extension tube that will save you hundreds of dollars!

6 DIY Holiday Gifts For The Photographers In Your Life

What are you to do when you have no idea what to buy the photographers in your life? Go the DIY route!

Possibly The Best DIY Beauty Dish There Is

Kishore Sawh

Beauty dishes don't come cheap, but if you're willing to trade some off time and elbow grease you may just be able to have a great one at little cost.

An Inexpensive Way to Calibrate Focus on Your DSLR For Sharper Images | AF Fine Tune

Hanssie

Focus calibration doesn't have to be expensive or difficult, try this method out and see if you can save yourself some time and money.

DIY Tilt-Shift Lens Made With a Broken Canon 50mm f1.8 and Some Duct Tape

Hanssie

Sawing a broken 50mm 1.8 in half and using duct tape, photographer Witono Halim made a tilt shift lens for about $27.

DIY Light Table for Quick Negative Scanning

Justin Heyes

Photographer Marius Hanzak has a low cost DIY project that can help you digitize that box of negatives that you have been putting off.

DIY: Build a Simple Ring Light Using LED Strips and a Frisbee For Around $30

Hanssie

Photographers tend to have a love/hate relationship with ring lights. While ring lights may be great for some situations, in others, it may look completely dreadful. So why spend a couple hundred dollars on one when you can just rig one together for around $30?

Super Cheap DIY Diffuser & A Short Color Grading Tutorial to Get That ‘Cinematic’ Look

Hanssie

Short on cash? Here's a cheap hack to get some nice diffusion for a cinematic look and a bonus color grading tutorial.