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Diffused Lighting assignment
Photography I
Professor: Marita Gootee
Fall 2005
All film is developed by hand and all prints are made by hand.
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taken with a DIY diffuser:
For photography collective Diffuse we made this massive 80 pages Riso printed zine.
Diffuse Collective consists of 9 photographers from Europe and the United states and gives a perspective on the weird things occurring during “normal” day to day situations.
After all the photographers send in a selection of their work we transformed it in to a hand-bound (side sewn stitch) Risograph printed zine. The zine is 28,5 x 20,0 cm (11,2” x 7,9”), consists of 64 Black & White and 16 colour pages (faux CMYK) and is made in an edition of 100 copies.
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Setup:
- Off camera flash on Manual left of model
- cable activated
- Diffused with translucent foam paper
- Light painting using 2 LED headlamp from R side
After a relaxing evening climbing Mt. Takao, the descent shared this beautiful subject. I would have missed it, except for two young Japanese photogs who took a brief moment to photograph this little wonder. I spent at least 30 minutes getting the lighting the way I wanted to. I used one SB and a headlamp with small piece of paper as a reflector. It was fun setting up a mini studio on top of a log.
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this is a picture of a home-made flash bracket that can clamp onto doors, furniture, pipes, etc. (bracket from off old fan w/ old ball-head & Nikon flash-foot adapter.
also demo of "honey jar diffuser".
Strobist: Sunpak Auto 26SR, with a DIY mini-softbox diffuser, high to camera left on a light stand in a cart for mobility. Triggered with PT-04TM wireless trigger.
If you are reading this I would like you to take a few minutes to flick through my recent uploads and celebrate the life of my beloved Ricoh gx100. The camera didn't meet its demise (blunt force trauma) on this exact set but it was this same day, the smash occurred on Lanikai beach about 2 hours later during sunset.
I've always been one to get emotionally attached to inanimate objects, I'll admit it... A pair of worn out comfy shoes? Check. Ratty t shirt.. sure. My gx100 was certainly up there with the best of them.
I will probably move to Canon now, for the CHDK features but KAPing is never easier and more convenient with a camera that has a built in menu for selecting the amount of seconds for a continuous timer (intervalometer). Ricoh gx100, you were light, simple, convenient and never gave me any grief. Thank you.
I'm sorry to see you go, especially because of my own error. I saw the levitation delta kite acting funny, tilting/leaning to the side and yet I let out more line hoping to connect with stable wind higher up. Korea, Malaysia, Wisconsin, Hawaii, we had some good times together. If you had to go out at all, I think you went out at your top. So far these are the best pictures I think you've produced for me.
Well, time to go to work so I'll leave it at that. I'll add proper titles to the pictures asap.
*Taken from a camera suspended from a kite line in Waimanalo, Oahu.*
Shooting something too big for my light box required a little creativity to diffuse the light source.
Taking scrapbooking paper and embellishments you can make your plain glass reed diffuser into a decorative Christmas item for your home or a gift
Then I stuck the duffuser on the flash and tried to do everything the same--no setting were touched. Yeah, I know the background is dark, but it's brighter than the ceiling bounce shot and there were no lights on in the entry which is like a little hallway. It aint art, but I got decent light where it looks okay. There is diffused light defining my face and even my shirt looks ok, and there is some light on the background. Imagine what I could do with some tweaking.
So after going to starbucks for a quick coffee i decided to make the cup into a 360 diffuser using some cardboard to go round the flash and some black tape to attach the cup too, i would like to re create it with a plain white cup that hasent been used for coffee!
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strobist info: SB900 from top front through transparent diffuser panel, with a second at -3EV at bottom to provide fill/ definition. Triggered by built in on D700. And the whole thing was photoshopped to hell afterwards to get the color.
Girard-Perregaux F1-047 Aluminum Chronograph - 200 pieces made from one of M Schumacher's engine blocks from the Ferrari days...
Simple milk jug diffuser (cut the end off and slotted the edges to let it squeeze over the head of a Vivitar 285HV) - attached via homemade household sync cable to D70. D70 at 1/500, f13 - i think the vivitar was at 1/16th power.
Note that the jug kinda bounces around on the head of the flash - I tried using bongo ties to secure it (I left the handle on the jug, so at least there's something to loop them through) but it's still not terribly secure - a longer "neck" on the jug would help.
We had a trip to Prague in January – for Jayne’s birthday - we don’t buy Christmas or birthday presents, we travel instead. We left snowy England for a very, very dull and grey Czech Republic. Yet again I was on a photographic downer looking at the weather forecast, grey is the colour that haunts me. Fortunately it was dull grey and not burnt highlight inducing bright grey.With the grey sky acting like a big diffuser I was going to have deep shadow and contrast to deal with. We had three very short spells of broken cloud which gave us a bit of sun and colour, which I managed to more or less anticipate so we managed to be in decent locations every time – generally somewhere high.
We had been upgraded to a five star hotel, apparently our original choice was flooded. We got compensation and five star hotel upgrade– a first for me. The Art Nouveau Palace has a beautiful interior, with beautiful rooms, the breakfast room was fantastic, as was the breakfast it has to be said. We were able to have an early breakfast so were out on foot just after eight. It was very cold – and dull! We spent the whole week well wrapped up. It drizzled for a day, but never really wet us, it snowed for a day, again we didn’t get wet and the snow didn’t settle. We walked 65 mile, spending plenty of time checking buildings and their interiors out – and coffee shop and bar interiors it has to be said. Although it was dull and sometimes wet I decided that the Camera was staying in my hands for the whole trip. Whenever I put it in my backpack for one reason or another I regret it.
Again, I didn’t look at any photographs of Prague before we got there, I like to just walk and discover, with the DK guidebook in my pocket (which is full of photos it has to be said). We like to get off the beaten track and see the grittier side of the places we visit – within reason! Prague has an incredible tram network, over 1000 trams – with many of them Tatra Eastern Bloc machines. The system seems chaotic but in reality it is incredible with one of the largest networks and highest usages in the world. The trams and cars frequently share the same road space with very little in the way of drama, none of the inexplicable and pathetic constant horn blowing one finds in many countries. Once it became apparent that buildings with a grey blanket as a background were going to be a bit un-inspirational I decided that the trams would be a good focal point instead. Where I have photographed one of the older trams against a background without clues it is easy to imagine that the photos were taken fifty years ago.
The train network also provided photo opportunities. The rolling stock ranges from old Eastern Bloc to very modern double decker’s and pendolinos. There are three stations although we visited the main station and Smichov. The main station interior is art deco and has been renovated by a private company. The exterior and the platforms are very rundown with a grim eastern bloc 1950’s feel –but it works! We discovered to our amusement that we could just walk across multiple lines, no health and safety, just keep your eyes open and don’t walk under a train – you’ll make a mess. Smichov station was grim, it didn’t help that it snowed all day and was grey and bitter. We felt like we were in a 50’s film set in Russia, broken concrete platforms and dereliction. With both stations there was another world underneath them. The underground Metro is running seamlessly and efficiently away beneath your feet. I didn’t have any problems taking photos anywhere but I was very open and obviously a tourist, I didn’t act covertly or suspiciously. There was only one occasion I was stopped and that was in a shopping centre – full of CCTV cameras filming everyone else!
We discovered old and beautiful- and very large- shopping centres hidden away in quite a few places. Brass framed windows and doors, shops thriving, there was a massive camera shop with thousands of second hand cameras, too much to look at. Many of the landmark buildings prevent photography, some make a small charge, some encourage it, the DK guide book gives a good indication regarding camera use. Nothing stops many people though, they just shoot away regardless, usually wanting a picture that includes their self. Prague is surrounded by low hills and has a fair few towers that you can pay a few pounds to go up, so viewpoints are plentiful. I think we visited most of them. I read about the Zizkov Tower, which looks like a Soviet rocket on the horizon and we headed straight for it - after crossing the rail lines! Set in a quiet residential area, there wasn’t a soul about. Two beautiful girls on reception and we parted with a few pounds, into the lift and were on the observation deck with no one else up there. There are fantastic views over the city, but! It is through two layers of not very clean glass so you go for the view rather than sharp panoramas. Still a fascinating place, with a nice café bar and very clean toilets – there are toilets everywhere, usually manned with a fee. Places are well staffed compared with home were three students are supposed to run a 20 screen multiplex cinema.
Graffiti was prominent, no matter how grand the monument, some moron would have daubed it. How do they get away with it in a 24 hour city centre with a strong police presence? The place is very clean, constantly being swept. What did surprise me, was that many buildings, that looked grand and built of stone, from a distance, were actually rendered with very low quality brickwork concealed. When restored the building look very impressive, others are missing the outer render from ground level to a fair height.
I need to cut this short really, I like to put a background story to the photos and although it would be better to individualise it to a specific photo or group of photos I don’t have the time to do that. I do try to give specific detail in the title bar after I have uploaded, this is time consuming enough although I’m pretty proficient at it by now. There are many things I would like to write that should be of interest to anyone thinking of going to Prague but I’ll have to let the pictures do the talking. As usual I am unlikely to be selective enough with my uploads, I’m not very good at leaving photos out so I just upload and be damned.
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Have you ever been some place and in desperate need of a diffuser for your on-camera flash?
You've heard about using a biz card but you've got nothing to hold it in place?
Well here's my mod, which occured to me in just such a situation.
I used to do origami as a kid, spent hours folding paper over and over and... where was I?
Yes! The diffuser. Well you've probably folded an aeroplane using this method so I used it to fold my biz card and slip it into the gap that exists on my 400D built-in flash.
Method:
1. Fold each corner fully across the card
2. Colapse togther to form triangular peak
3. fold the 'ears' up to form a small square