Easy and Cheap ways to enhance your photos and Photography Equipment

Hello everyone,

In the last past three weeks I've been sharing tips and tricks to help with your photo taking and editing. Today I'm going to focus on showing you ways to enhance your photos and photography equipment, while saving money and also getting professional results. When it comes to photography lighting is one of the most important elements.  There are many different types of lighting equipment that you can buy to give your photo shoots professional lighting. We all know that this lighting equipment can run you a pretty penny and as artist/photographers you may not have the extra cash to spare on new lighting equipment. I'm going to show you different ways to use your exiting equipment and ways to enhance the lighting with around the house objects and inexpensive tools.  

I’d not heard of this type of device before – but since I found this tutorial I’ve discovered a number of photographers who for one reason or another want to be able to extend the reach of their flash.

This is particularly useful for wildlife photographers who want to supplement natural light in tricky lighting with fill flash. Of course sometimes it’s difficult to get close to that animal and a normal flash would have no impact.

Enter the Flash Extender (one popular one is the ‘better beamer’).

Beauty Dish

Beauty dishes are wonderful pieces of photographic equipment to experiment with – but they can be very expensive.

Not any more (at lest if you use this DIY trick).

In this hack learn how to use a simple Turkey Pan to get some pretty amazing beauty dish results! The comparison examples in this tutorial between the turkey pan version and the real thing are pretty convincing.

I must remember to add Turkey Pans to this week’s shopping list.