Comments on: Techniques #3 – DIY Photography Gear http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/ A Blog About Taiwan, Photography and Traveling Sat, 12 May 2012 01:27:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chapter 1 Photography Gear for the new (and experienced) wedding photographer | Wedding Photography Primer http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-667 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:09:24 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-667 [...] Do it yourself Photography gear Blog: If you are looking for some ways to construct additional ‘studio’ or off camera lighting gear, this particular post would be a good place to start.  This blog covers some different snoots you can make.  A snoot is basically a tube that you place on the end of a flash head that will narrow the light beam exiting the flash.  This is great for producing spotlight-like effects. [...]

]]> By: Techniques - DIY Soft Box « Neil Wade’s Photography Blog http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-216 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:59:08 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-216 [...] Also have a look at my blog about general DIY Photography Gear. [...]

]]> By: Techniques #6.1 - Off Camera Non-TTL « Neil Wade Photography’s Blog http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-111 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:06:41 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-111 [...] the home-made, DIY super clamp!  Man, I love these things!  For this picture, I wanted the flash to be set directly in the path [...]

]]> By: Techniques #6 - Off-Camera Non-TTL Flash « Neil Wade Photography’s Blog http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-100 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:23:49 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-100 [...] information out there about choosing the right umbrella, the right softbox, making you’re own DIY grip gear, snoots, grids…bla, bla, bla, [...]

]]> By: Neil Wade http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-99 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:14:33 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-99 Thanks for the warning. I’ll keep an eye on mine. Maybe a bigger washer on the back would help.

]]> By: Lee Bass http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-98 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:03:48 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-98 Just a heads up. I had my sb600 attached to the same clamp in the exact same fashion and one day the flash fell due to the area around the hole drilled in the clamp fractured and away she went. I switched to a metal clamp and it seem much stronger.

Good day
Lee

]]> By: cfimages http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-57 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:37:47 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-57 Thanks for the tip about Burger King – another place I almost never go to, but I guess I can pop in and have some fries one lunchtime.

]]> By: Neil Wade http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-55 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:33:47 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-55 Try Burger King. They’re free for as long as you can stand there and push that little lever down!

]]> By: cfimages http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-54 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:01:56 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-54 I haven’t managed to find black straws in Taiwan, although I don’t often go to bars so that might have something to do with it.

]]> By: Neil Wade http://taiwan-photography-blog.com/2009/01/16/techniques-3-diy-photography-gear/#comment-52 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:14:49 +0000 http://neilwade.wordpress.com/?p=175#comment-52 I don’t like the corrugated cardboard as much as the black straws, the light just doesn’t seem as consistent. I recently got a set of Paul C Buff’s CyberSyncs, and I have to say that they’re really nice. I’ve been using Radio Slaves for a long, long time and the CyberSyncs are much smaller and more reliable.

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