Guide to Creating Your Own Home Studio

Don’t break the bank. Make your own  Home Studio at a fraction of the cost.

We know that photographers tend to be lacking financially most of the time. So any chance we get to save a buck, we should take it.

You want control of your light so you need lighting modifiers. But there’s so much to buy! Softboxes, reflectors, beauty dishes, strip lights, and the list goes on.

The people at DIY Photography put together this ebook to teach you how to make your own light modifiers at a fraction of the cost.

Have you ever looked at one of those disposable aluminum turkey pans and thought, “Wow that would make a pretty good beauty dish?” No? To be fair, I haven’t either. But it’s a pretty awesome idea though.

Ingenious actually. Think about it. The turkey pan is already reflective — and dish shaped. The material is easy to cut into but sturdy enough to keep your flash from falling. All you would need to do is cut the space in it.

So if you can make a beauty dish from an ordinary, commonplace, what-the-hell-do-we-use-this-for-other-than-blasting-turkeys, kitchen accessory, what else could you make?

Why spend money on gear that you could make at home?

Home Studio is your guide to building almost any lighting modifier needed in a photography studio: from the silkiest softbox in the world to strip lights, reflectors, snoots, gridspots, light stands, clamp stands, and diffusion screens.

These 21 projects are designed so that everyone can finish them. Designed so that they are functional and as effective as anything you can buy from your local photography store.

The ebook is organized chronologically from the basics to those really specialized things like a light tent – fashioned from a good old Fed-ex box – for product photography shoots. You can read them all or pick and chose. Either way, you’ll find plenty of money-saving Saturday mornings projects in each section.

The projects are all really fun to do. And simple. It’s their simplicity that I love the most. Like the aforementioned turkey-pan beauty dish. Pure genius.

So if you got scissors. A hammer. Glue. Some cardboard boxes. Plus the desire to work with your hands. Then you got just about everything you need.

Here is a sample of the 21 cool projects you can create

What’s inside this e-book?

• 21 DIY lighting modifier projects with easy to follow instructions
• An intro to home studio lighting and the lights you should buy
• 5 quick tips to achieving DIY lighting rigs
• Practical advice for using your DIY modifiers
• 3 illustrated cheat sheets to help your portrait lighting