DIY Lighting Tutorials
Building Your Kit
- DIY Light Kit (Indy Mogul)
- $25 Lightkit (Indy Mogul)
- Joren Clark Lighting Kit (JorenClark.com)
- Beginner’s DIY Lighting Kit (MediaCollege.com)
- Light Source: Build Your Own Lighting Kit (VideoMaker)
- Lighting for DV (Mediaed.org)
- Low Budget Lighting Article (DVinfo.net)
- Even Cheaper and Cooler DIY Lighting (YouTube)
- Low Budget Lighting (ScottSpears.net)
- Low Budget Lighting (TakeZer0)
- DIY Studio Lights For Cheap (YouTube)
- Lighting on the Cheap (YouTube)
- Fashion lighting on a budget (YouTube)
- DIY Ep. #1: Softbox Light Kit (YouTube)
- Even Cheaper and Cooler DIY Lighting (YouTube)
- DIY Lighting for video (YouTube)
- Ring Flash (David Tejada)
- DIY Ring-Flash with build images and sample shots… (Motley Pixel)
Reflectors
- Building a DIY beauty dish
- DIY: Make Your Own Light Reflector For $5 (Sublime Light)
- Fifty cent flash bounce (Instructables)
- How to make a golden reflector (Lighting-Academy.com)
- Making your own light reflectors (P1/3) (YouTube)
- Making your own light reflectors (P2/3) (YouTube)
- Making your own light reflectors (P3/3) (YouTube)
- DIY: How to make a folding reflector for free (YouTube)
- V Cards (DIYyphotography.net)
- HOW TO: Cheap Bounce Board (Indy Mogul)
Softboxes
- The Best Softbox Ever (DIYyphotography.net)
- Kimel’s Pop Up Flash Soft Box Diffuser (DIYyphotography.net)
- Striplight and Softbox (DIYyphotography.net
- The DIY Strip Light (DIYyphotography.net)
- A Home Grown Softbox (DIYyphotography.net)
- DIY Softbox Prototype Testbed – with build instructions (flickr)
- DIY 50” x 50” Collapsible Soft Box – with build instructions (flickr)
- DIY Large Softbox for Small Strobe 100cm x 60cm – with build instructions (flickr)
- DIY Light Strip Softbox – with build instructions (flickr)
- DIY Light Diffusion in Video Production (Expert Village)
- Even Better Softbox Part One – The Build Process (DIYyphotography.net)
- building a Mini Soft Box (Sonic Artistry)
- Build a Softbox Lamp – DIY design (YouTube)
- The Square Ring Flash (DIYyphotography.net)
- The Strip Light That Won’t Strip You (DIYyphotography.net)
Light Modifiers (Snoots/Barndoors)
- the 15 second DIY adjustable snoot (f1point0.com)
- Homemade Speedlite “Snoot” (DIYyphotography.net)
- Cheap Lighting & Barn Doors (Rever)
- Using A Cooling Honeycomb As A DIY Gridspot (DIYyphotography.net)
- Drinking Beer – Out! Snooting – In! (DIYyphotography.net)
- Gel Holder for Flash (DIYyphotography.net)
- The Food Saver Omnibounce (DIYyphotography.net)
- DIY Wax-Fen Flash Diffuser – Yet Another Bouncy Thingy (DIYyphotography.net)
- Homemade Gridspot (DIYyphotography.net)
- Flash Mounted homemade DIY Beauty Dish (DIYyphotography.net)
- Barndoor Template (CoolLights.biz)
- $5 Barn Doors for Worklights (YouTube)
- How to Build Barndoors on Worklight for Green Screen Youtube Videos (YouTube)
- Scrim or Butterfly Light Diffuser (JorenClark.com)
- Do It Yourself Light Diffuser (YouTube)
- How to modify your studio lights for under $7.00 (YouTube)
- DIY Flash Diffuser – Airline Barf Bags (digital-photography-school.com)
- HOW TO: Diffusion Panel (Indy Mogul)
DIY Grip
- Home Made Cheap DIY Backdrop Stand (DIYyphotography.net)
- Plumbers Light-Backdrop Stand (DIYyphotography.net)
- Greenscreens and Backdrop Stands (DIYyphotography.net)
- Double Your Light Stand As A Portable Backdrop Mount System (DIYyphotography.net)
- DIY Ghetto-Fab Portable Backdrop Stand (DIYyphotography.net)
- $30 C-Stands
- PVC Backdrop/Light Stand (DIYyphotography.net)
- Using Clamps As Flash Light Stands (DIYyphotography.net)
- The Plaster Spatula Lighting Stand (DIYyphotography.net)
- Using light stands outside (meejahor.com)
- The 75¢ Sandbag (f1point0.com)
Backdrops
Cheap Portable Chroma Key Screen (Bluescreen) – More DIY How To Projects
- Cheap DIY Muslin Photography Background (DIYyphotography.net)
- Spice Up Your Home Made Muslin Backdrop (DIYyphotography.net)
- Really Cheap Homemade Diy Studio (DIYyphotography.net)
- Portable Greenscreen with PVC and Cloth
- Large greenscreen (non-portable) for under $30.
- DIY Blue (or Green) Screen
- Greenscreens and Backdrop Stands
DIY Tents
- DIY Cheap Soft Light Panel Frame Designed for Flash (DIYyphotography.net)
- The Origami Studio (An Extrapolation to The $0.02 Macro Studio) (DIYyphotography.net)
- The Mother Of All Light Tents (DIYyphotography.net)
- Sticks, Stones, Concrete and Killer Lighting (DIYyphotography.net)
- The Ghetto Studio (DIYyphotography.net)
DIY FIXTURES
- Home made Kino (DVXuser.com)
- Just Fab’s Turkey Pan Beauty Dish (DIYyphotography.net)
- $6 Movie Light (YouTube)
- DIY Fluorescent Lamp (Instructables)
- DIY Spider Light by Alex Campagna (DIYyphotography.net)
- Cactus Slave Flash Cable Hack (DIYyphotography.net)
- Disposable Camera Ring Flash (DIYyphotography.net)
- Great Way To Build a Ringlight (DIYyphotography.net)
- Cold Halogen Lights (DIYyphotography.net)
- Empower Yourself On Location (Or Two Portable Power Packs) (DIYyphotography.net)
- The Cheapest Ring Light Ever (DIYyphotography.net)
- DIY Dimmable Kino (Ryan E Walters)
- DIY $40 400 watt video light (Vimeo)
- Build Plans: 600 Watt Hand-Squeezer (Indy Mogul)