DIY

I have equipped my camera obscura with some better hardware to get better control and in the end better images with it.

I often use some very simple ”studio” setups to shoot small items in my office or my living room, even my bedroom. There's no reason to make things too complicated.

This is probably the most often used flash modifier apart from the diffuser--if not, perhaps it ought to be.

A snoot is a tube in front of your flash, which keeps its beam of light tight and concentrated, while a grid has lots of smaller, parallel tubes that do essentially the same thing.

This is the first of a series of articles on flash modifiers – thingamajigs that can make your flash photography more interesting and give you more control over the light.

Striplights are a great type of softboxes that give a nice, characteristic and very controlled light

...very small, that is.