Do It Yourself (DIY) Lighting

Martin Catt posted a great DIY article on how to create your own video lights out of aluminum cake pans. The advantage of the cake pans is that they can be grounded for safety. Also - they are light weight for easy mounting to light stands.

Richard Wright demonstrates how to rebuild "brooder" style clamp lights into video lights which can mount to traditional light stands.

Cool Lights provide a demonstration for adding barn-doors to outdoor halogen and clamp lights.



The site CreativityToSpare.com has posted a YouTube video on how to create easy DIY lighting.

Photo Construction Projects

Photography can be a central part to the design of a technical or health course, in order to show steps in a process, details of tools and materials, and to contrast and compare different items.

Taking effective photographs can be made simpler with the right tools. One of these tools is a "shooting table" on which items to be photographed are placed and lit.

Commercial Shooting Tables
B&H Photo Video - Shooting Tables
Adorama - Still Life Photo Equipment


Here are some links to construction ideas and parts for building a shooting table.

• Kee Lite Fittings - Aluminum pipe fittings - for use with aluminum electrical conduit
• Hartnagel - Specialy PVC Pipe Fittings - for use with PVC plumbing pipe
• PVC Fittings - Specialty Pipe Fittings - for use with PVC plumbing pipe
• Simplified Building Concepts - build your own shooting table with Kee Lite fittings
• PVC Light Tent - photograph objects with even lighting
• Build a Shooting Table for under $80 - from Worth1000 tutorials
• Shooting Table and Light Tunnel - in use
  
• Super Cheap Shooting Table - for macro photos
  
• PVC Light Box - Super Simple design