Check out Mike Gannaway‘s sweet as flash stand hack! More mounting info on the photo’s page on Flickr. Via Strobist

Check out photographer Don Brice‘s excellent modification that allows you to use normal flash/strobe units on Diana toy cameras: I enjoy using the Diana in the studio and shooting portraits and still life lit with flash. I discovered long ago that by ripping off the usual connector on the end of the syncro cable, you [...]

Photography enthusiast Nick Pagazani was hindered by the range and fixed location of his camera’s flash. Since his camera has no connector for an external flash, he needed a light-activated slave trigger to fire a remote strobe. It had to ignore the pre-flashes used for red-eye correction and fire only on the main flash. His [...]

Check out Flickr member Muzzlehatch‘s instructions for making a "light bouncer/diffuser for a camera-mounted external flash to use on macro shots". Here’s the first step, be sure to view all the steps in the MuzzBounce™ Ghetto Flash modifier set. Via Strobist

Flickr member potatomato posted a photo set on how he made a flash diffusor from a plastic take-away container. He writes: The Gary Fong Lightsphere is a flash diffuser that is gaining popularity with wedding and portrait photograhers world wide. His product is selling at a pace that the manufacturer can’t keep up with. This [...]

The SSO-CLK (for lack of a more poetic term) is designed to give you the most bang for your buck – with a nod toward extreme portability. It will work well with any camera that can be controlled manually and has a PC synch jack. Most SLR’s, digital or film, fit this bill. The flash [...]

Digital photography has made it possible to quickly and easily take a pair of images of low-light environments: one with flash to capture detail and one without flash to capture ambient illumination. We present a variety of applications that analyze and combine the strengths of such flash/no-flash image pairs. Our applications include denoising and detail [...]

"Here Brian shows how to build a homemade cheap flash bouncer. The flash bouncer can be used to increase the size of a hot-shoe flash. The bouncer is great and very easy to build. An alternative to the bouncer is the home made softbox. Another option for building this homemade flash bouncer is to use [...]

"In the following article, I will demonstrate how to make your own flash mounted, home made softbox. You will need two good hands, and some patience, but your reward will be a nice softbox for the cost of only 3-4 dollars…" Continue reading at DIYPhotography.net Via MAKE Blog

Canon just launched a new mini-site dedicated to flash photography with the EOS/EOS Digital + Speedlite combo. It also has a Lighting Techniques section with diagrams and example photos that applies to flash in general. Also, I strongly recommend that anyone using EOS flash—on film or digital bodies—read NK Guy’s excellent article, Flash Photography with [...]