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"I am creating the illusion of diffused lighting in the setting of this painting by placing the well-lit character (that is saturated in color) in a darker room. Mars black is a relatively opaque color that will give good coverage on a white canvas, another option is ivory black." ~Tomitheos
STEP 3
Diffused lighting occurs when the light is filtered, this can be achieved in the painting's setting by softening the shadows, darkening the colors, and by eliminating stark contrasts..
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Here I did change the camera setup, but only the shutter speed, to compensate for a bit less light due to diffusers.
The key areas are marked with arrows:
- strong shadows
- light source reflections
- strong contrasts
Both pictures are a bit edited this time.
I am finished with testing. I hope you find these three pictures useful. Please share your thoughts and alternative methods if you've got any.
Ricolla quadrispinosa (Linnaeus, 1767). Tentative ID based on www.inaturalist.org images. Found at Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA), in Cachoeiras de Macacu municipality in state of Rio de Janeiro in southeastern Brazil.
Found on Yellow Trail.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.
New diffuser. Idea from SteB on juza forum. www.flickr.com/photos/9578475@N02/
A variation of SteB's cup diffuser.
Transparent PP material from a mineral water bottle with 2 layers of polystyrene sheet over it.
Image courtesy of Edward Chan
Mass Effect 3, Cinematic ENB with (Further) reduced Grain and new palette, SweetFX 1.4 (SMAA, Lumasharpen, DPX, Liftgammagain,Tonemap,Vibrance,Curves,Dither)
Trying something a bit different with ENB and SweetFX, kinda washy but I like it. :P
1 Diffused SB-600 from the left at 1/8th power and 1 SB-600 from the right at 1/8th power. Both flashes triggered by Pocketwizard II's.
Cut from a plastic binder and made to fit in the camera's hot shoe, in this case on a D80. It folds back on itself and locks together.
Cost? Not very much. The A4 plastic binder was $2.20. I made this diffuser plus a couple of diffusers for regular flashes from just half of the material.
Although the outside of the box is covered in black paper or fabric, inside it's still white foamcore.
Essential Oil diffusing jewelry set! I have finally finished this new design. I am so happy with it.
Just got my Sigma 500 super dg flash back from repair (started behaving oddly after about 30000 shots) which meant I have two flashes ,two camera bodies,2 macro lenses but only one flash bracket. So decided to try and do a diffuser for a camera mounted flash gun with the aim of diffusing the light plus reducing the amount of power used in each flash (for quick cycle times). Did my normal plastic milk bottle, duct tape, aluminium foil, kitchen towel quick and dirty job. Much to my suprise seems to have achieved both objectives :)
Images taken with Sony A7s, SEL50M28 FE macro lens. I used autofocus and it worked great with the close focus limit turned on. I used a Yongnuo Flahs in manual mode, with a lens mounted collapsible diffuser. I shot raw and edited in lightroom 5. The root borer was dead, but the spider and the horn worm were alive - not sure how much longer the horn worm lived... Our chickens got it after I photographed it. Totally gross in my opinion... A wasp that lays eggs into its skin, so the babies can hatch and eat it up - sounds like the theme of the Alien movies to me.
Araneae, Salticidae, Evarcha falcata - subadult male.
If you want to check your home-made diffuser's reflections, the best idea is to shoot a jumping spider from frontal view. Their eyes are the best bulging mirrors in the world of arthropods.
Canon EOS 5D + Canon MP-E 65/2.8 + Minolta T-2400 twin flash + DIY diffusers (slightly cropped)
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.
The next step to improving light leakage was to make, out of black fabric, a sleeve to go over the hole in the side of the box and a skirt around the base. I'd noticed that my diffuser didn't quite sit flush onto the back of the camera so the skirt helped with that.