Category Archives: Photo/Video
Rancilio Audrey Group Head
Today I disassembled my Audrey with the intent to install pre-infusion mod and to clean the group head. I did not install the mod though. I realized that my mental picture of the mod is not matching what I found in the machine.
I am looking for a place to attach the water shock absorber. [...]
Suction Clamp Camera Support
This is a camera support gadget that can be used to support a camera or a flash on any even surface. Glass and polished metal work fine with it. I use it to shoot from my car by attaching it to the driver-side window. This attachment makes my car into a camera support. More than [...]
Vacation clothes shot with my octagon ringlight
This is another video episode shot with my Octagon Light design
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Improving octagon light
Now it has 16 lights and mate black front
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Black foamy thing
Black flag is an old idea. Here is a simple DIY twist on this idea for speedlights
Lighting setup with two umbrellas
Found a reference to a two umbrella setup that mimics a beauty light.
It is like a large beauty light. There are two drawbacks to this setup IMHO. Fist, it must be loosing a lot of light in reflections between the two umbrellas. Second, as any beauty light it would have a sweet spot where light would [...]
Folding Octagon Ring Light
I mostly do photography. Sometimes I shoot video. For my photography I use off-camera flash. Video needs a different approach. So, decided to make a small ring light for shooting indoors What I end up with is not exactly small. It started with an innocent decision to make an octagon from 30 inch segments of 2×4s. [...]