These are ideas for photography accessories that won’t stretch your budget:
| Idea | Description | Contributor |
| Paper plate reflector | Use paper plates as reflectors to add fill light to macro shots. Use doll sized mirrors from the Dollar Store to add highlights to certain areas of your macro shots | Michael Brown |
| Needle Stitch Hoop diffuser | Head for Wal-mart or your favorite store and grab a needle stitch hoop and your favorite colored cloth for a cool light diffuser. Your total cost, about $5.00, perhaps less! | Micki Harbour |
| Portable cloud | Grab yourself a white kitchen garbage bag and head out to the field. Makes for a fine portable cloud to allow nice soft light on those sunny days. | John Seltzer |
| Cardboard/Garbage bag platform | No need to sacrifice those low shots because of a bit of wet ground! Cardboard and/or garbage bags do the trick! Simply place them on the ground and you have yourself a nice shooting platform. | Micki/Thomas |
| Camera Rain Coat | Sneak a 1 gallon Zip-lock (or your favorite brand) out of the pantry and keep it in your bag. If it starts to rain, you can slip this over your important gear. | Anita Jesse |
| Portable changing room | Zip-Lock to the rescue again. If you find yourself in windy/sandy conditions, change your lenses while your camera is protected with the Zip-Lock or garbage bag. | Paul Lester |
