steveblackdog
Pate_Setup
More experiments with my lightbox and new mini-flash (see here www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4467110058/ ).
I thought I could optimise the performance of this tiny little unit and boy, was I in for a surprise.
It's probably not that clear in the photo so I had better give a written description.
The thing :-) mounted on top of the box is a clear thin plastic tube, about 9inches/225mm diameter and 6inches/150mm deep, which originally had a cake in it. Around this was stuck some strips of metallic tape. On top is a circle of white card with a window the size of the flash head cut in it. So in a effect, a reflector. Between this and the open top of the box, were sheets of white printer paper to diffuse the light. It is fairly easy to adjust the light output by adding extra sheets of paper to reduce the light. With a single sheet of white paper, I could get a good exposure upto ISO 100, f16 at 1/160, my max synch with radio triggers. Not bad for such a cheap little flash.
The result is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4467405413/
Had another go, much better DOF
Pate_Setup
More experiments with my lightbox and new mini-flash (see here www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4467110058/ ).
I thought I could optimise the performance of this tiny little unit and boy, was I in for a surprise.
It's probably not that clear in the photo so I had better give a written description.
The thing :-) mounted on top of the box is a clear thin plastic tube, about 9inches/225mm diameter and 6inches/150mm deep, which originally had a cake in it. Around this was stuck some strips of metallic tape. On top is a circle of white card with a window the size of the flash head cut in it. So in a effect, a reflector. Between this and the open top of the box, were sheets of white printer paper to diffuse the light. It is fairly easy to adjust the light output by adding extra sheets of paper to reduce the light. With a single sheet of white paper, I could get a good exposure upto ISO 100, f16 at 1/160, my max synch with radio triggers. Not bad for such a cheap little flash.
The result is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/steveblackdog/4467405413/
Had another go, much better DOF