The excellent lighting site Strobist have released their Lighting 101 guide as a free PDF. Check it out! What’s Strobist? “Teaching you how to use your small flashes, off camera, to get professional results. Your flash photography will never be the same again.”

This only works in low light when you’re shooting near your computer, but if you are, this technique outlined at DIYPhotography.net gets points for bricolage style, cheapness, and ease of use.

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 [...]

Strobist have just started a virtual boot camp for anyone interested in improving their lighting skills: The main point of SBC is to nudge those photographers out there who have not made the transition to actually trying this lighting stuff out to make the jump. Secondarily, we will hopefully all get a chance to see [...]

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 [...]

Flickr member idiot king writes, "”I just made a light tent that’s a little larger than this one (it’s 4′x3′) with a roll of paper for the backdrop and bedsheets as diffusers. I think it cost, in total, about $30 for wood and paper. This will come in real handy for portfolio shots!" Via MAKE [...]