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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
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.
Diffusées en Angleterre par Boots Cash Chemists de 1900 à 1906. Peu à pas d'information si ce n'est leurs extrême raretés.
The light from the left is a large Chinese globe paper lantern, with a flash gun inside which has a white plastic diffusing hood on it inside a white translucent plastic shopping bag, inside the globe. All that diffusion is necessary to give an even white diffuse light from the paper surface of the globe without any hot spots.
Behind my head and to the right is a hair rim light direct flash to provide background separation on that side. From above and little to the right and front is a direct flash firing through a CTO (standard tungsten orange) gel. I hoped that colour would add to the 3D modelling effect without looking unnatural.
Those two extra strobes are not in optimum positions, but I'm here using a kitchen as a makeshift studio and am restricted by the positions of available bits of furniture I can mount flashes on. Nevertheless an interesting and instructive experiment.
The black background is some black cloth hanging from a propped up broom handle about 1.5 metres behind.
The flash guns used and their power settings are shown in this photograph. The Chinese ball lantern can be seen in this photograph.
Flash guns triggered by Cactus V2s's.
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This shoot was the prize for the winner of the Bow and Crossbones Face of 2012 competition run earlier this year, voted for by you!!
First off, a MASSIVE thanks to Paul and Jane for allowing us to use their fantastic home for this shoot.
Ireally appreciate it mate and I hope you like the results!
Always amusing and a pleasure to catch up, especially in such fantastic surroundings as the Tiki Palace!
The wonderful model is Maria ( www.myspace.com/cherryonfire ) and the accessories are of course
by Cam at Bow and Crossbones ( bowandcrossbones.com/ ).
Hair by Kessie Hodges and make-up by Betty Flowers.
Technical Info:
Canon 40D bodies with Sigma 30mm F/1.4 EX DC HSM, Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 OS EX DC HSM lenses.
Off camera Canon 430EX and EXII flashguns and remote triggers. A mix of shoot-thru white and silver brollies and stofen diffusers.
Aero:
VRS Aero Front Spoiler
VRS Aero Rear Diffuser
VRS Aero Wing
Wheels: V-FF 105
Finish: Black Chrome
(F) 20" x 8.5" et30
(R) 20" x 11" et27
A selection of images from a walk over Lingmoor Fell in the English Lake District on a very cold day in December 2022.
We sort of became trapped on the lower slopes after enjoying the scenery a bit too much, not paying attention and taking the wrong path. So we bimbled about there for a bit, finding a small, frozen tarn with very clear ice. The ice had ripples, cracks and bubbles that combined to distort the contents of said tarn quite oddly.
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.
1 x SB600+diffuser cap @ 1/2 power on medium softbox above
Triggered using CLS via pop-up flash
1 12x16 inch mirror on rigth side for fill in
Taken @ f22, 1/250s to remove any ambient light
Edited to enhance colors and vibrance
Simple set-up here:
Rollei 35 Classic Titan
Sonnar 40mm f2.8
Ilford HP5Plus EI250
HC-110B 5min @20° in Jobo1520
Essential film holder
DSLR scan
Negative Lab Pro
I haven't had much luck this past week with macro, so I pulled one out of the archive from May. This is lit by a 580exii with a simple homemade diffuser. This was before I came up with the bounce flash diffuser. The dark spot in the catch lights is my failed attempt at a beauty dish style diffuser. Also, I took this with the T2i. I think the T2i is slightly sharper than the 60D. I still prefer the 60D due to its many superior features, but it does not win in sharpness or noise.
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.
natural light no any flash lights or strobe only natural lights directed to subject between subject and sun there is curtain makes diffuser to reduce harsh highlights like and share my work thanks and regards
Tropical flower, Hibiscus, on soft background with bokeh.
Texture used: Bokeh 01 by Alex Edgar www.flickr.com/photos/alexedg/2661904495/in/album-7215760...
Portrait of a Swedish writer of children's books for a publishing house.
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Lighting info
Main light from a Profoto ComPact 600R fitted with a 5' softbox Octa camera slightly left above a silver reflector, creating a clamshell. But, I placed myself and the camera a bit to the right to get away from that frontal lighting look a little.
Behind the model, camera left, was a strip softbox with a mask that made the light from that source very thin/narrow (?). Just a little to create a rim light and light the hair on the sides a bit.
On the other side, I had a medium sized softbox behind a large diffusor to give a soft window-like light from behind. And finally, a large white reflector camera right to give a little fill light to the model's left side.
The background was a medium grey paper background.
Please visit my blog for other setups.
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Briana in Casa Grande.
Strobist-In the shade. Bare strobe covered with tissue paper to diffuse it a bit to camera right at 1/8 power,
MT-24EX flash diffuser test
Ladybird have shiny armor so it's a perfect specimen for diffuser test. I think diffusing flash light came out well :)