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Slight revisit to an older shot seeing as the rain is refusing to let up...
Diffused slightly in Photoshop then soft brush and quick mask to bring back the centre, Upped the saturation probably about 30-40 points cranked up the contrast slightly, Raised gamma and tone a little unsharp mask and to finish neat image noise reduction.
Viola over cooked but i like it :o)
A number of images in my photo archive were taken using this cheap flash diffuser and the camera's pop-up flash. The plastic dish is from a Marie Callender "Fresh Flavor Steamer" frozen dinner. Here it's rigged up as a kind of soft-box or shoot-through flash diffuser for using with the pop up flash on the camera. Behind the dish is a Nikon D40. The arms of the support bracket are screwed to the tripod mount of the camera with a knob having a 1/4-20 thread. Reading lights are used to support clips for holding the dish. I don't need or use the lights... just the "goose-neck" material and the light's mounting clips. The primary lens is a Nikon 70-210mm zoom AF lens, with the focus locked at infinity with the green rubber band. The lens with the silver barrel peeking out of the lens shade is the "common objective" from a junk American Optical "Cycloptic" stereo microscope (NOT reversed). Focusing is done manually, simply by moving the rig forward and backward and shooting as the subject passes through the zone of maximum sharpness.
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NOTE: This early version of my macro set-up has been replaced with an updated rig using a cut-down, lens-mounted diffuser, and a bracket using threaded rods to support reflector cards. The diffuser and reflector cards can be used separately, or together depending upon your lighting requirements.
mk1 beauty dish diffuser. A Christmas pudding plastic bowl, some alu foil, end of a large millicano coffee can turned into a slight cone. and some fishing line
A simple, cheap and effective flash diffuser utilizing styro-foam dinnerware.
You'll need:
1. An 8-7/8" (22cm) foam plate.
2. A 12 oz. (354ml) foam bowl (approx. 6" dia. at the top, 3" dia. at the bottom and 1-3/4" deep).
3. Clear adhesive tape.
4. A pen or other marker.
5. An X-acto knife or razor blade.
6. Scissors.
Place the front of your flash unit against the bottom of the foam bowl and mark a line around it,
then carefully cut out the shape on the bottom of the bowl.
Put the bowl upside down and centered on the foam plate and mark around it (should be about a 6" circle). Cut out the circle from the plate.
Position the cut-out 6" disc over the big end of the bowl and attach with clear tape in about 4 equally spaced places.
Slip the small cutout end of the bowl onto your flash unit and you're ready to go.
Note: If your flash has a wide angle filter on it, use it.
I know most of you could have figured this out without instructions, but, you never know ;-)
My usual camera settings for macro - 1/200sec.(flash sync.), f/9 +/-, flash power = 1/32
To learn the use of fill lights and diffusers.
Lighting info -
Small hand-held torchlight diffused with tissue paper.
Problems faced-
Controlling the intensity of the light source. Need for a proper backdrop.
Man, the club's room needs a proper studio setup after all these years. Let's see if this little project works out.
It should ideally look like this in the end.
www.diyphotography.net/files/blz/bds_09.jpg
On Explore Sep 29, 2008 #264
Taken for a Black and White challenge, this is a scented diffuser stick set and backlit using my maglite
Around twelve exposures were taken in bulb mode and blended in photoshop.
I had thought of purchasing a Gary Fong Light-sphere Diffuser, for my Canon 480EX Flash; however, these cost in the region of £40.
The Sto-Fen OM-EW Omni Bounce Flash Diffuser works reasonably well, but for Macro and Portraiture, I still found it a little harsh.
The addition of the Sainsbury's Milk carton really works wonders.
Well, how well does it work; take a look!
The clouds were too thick to contemplate setting up the telescope so just set up the Canon 600D on the tripod...
Thrilled we captured a few shots considering the inclement weather!
This is a very simple, but very effective diffuser I have used for a most of the images taken with the 100mm macro lens you see on my Photostream this year. I was intending to write it up but haven't got round to it. These photos describe it.
This is a DIY diffuser that I made for my earlier workshop back in 2005.
The material used was some PVC piping and some cloth thingines that used for some curtain materials thingies oso!
Total cost: can't remeber, but I remembered that it is less than RM80.00 all in (inclusive paying a tailor to sew it, He was very confused when first heard about the project lah ahahahahaha)
I have an assistant now (2009), but back then I had to use passerby to become my lightstand holder assistant (it's a good experience for them oso as they can oogle at them models up close *winks*)
This was a development of Alex Wild's Tracing paper diffuser, using a waterproof material. From this I then developed the cup diffuser as a more compact diffuser that could be fitted into smaller gaps in the vegetation.
My DIY macro flash diffuser, which is simply a plastic plate with a semicircle cut out, attached to the lens hood of my Tamron 90 macro.
Here you can see the cone in situ. You can also see that it does a pretty rotten job of preventing light leakage. This amount of leakage would fog any photographic paper placed anywhere near it. We need a new plan.
Tropical flower, Hibiscus, on soft background with bokeh.
Texture used: Bokeh 01 by Alex Edgar www.flickr.com/photos/alexedg/2661904495/in/album-7215760...