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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
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.
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.
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!
CNAUTOFANS BMW F10 535i Vorsteiner Carbon Fiber Front Lip Spoiler & Rear Diffuser & Trunk Lip Spoiler
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...
Here are two items used with my pop-up flash macro bracket. One is necessary... the direct flash shield, the other is a nice option... the frozen dinner bowl flash diffuser. Both are adapted for mounting on the front of a lens using a Raynox UAC2000 snap-on lens adapter. It allows mounting their macro lenses (and now my attachments) on any lens having a filter ring between 52mm and 67mm. It fits on like a lens cap by pressing two tabs. This convenient adapter is the 43mm model supplied with their DCR-150 and DCR-250 macro lenses, and is available separately. If focusing your lens results in the shield or diffuser rotating away from its position directly in front of the pop-up flash, simply squeeze the two mounting tabs and reposition the shield.
The diffuser is made from the plastic bowl that comes with a Marie Callender or Healthy Choice “steamer” frozen dinner. It provides diffused pop-up flash lighting, with soft edged shadows. Clipping a small piece of black paper or plastic on the back of the diffuser allows you to selectively block a portion of the flash, creating directional soft lighting, adjusted by moving the material right or left. Bowls from any dinners having tomato sauce shouldn't be used. Even after vigorous scrubbing, running through a dish washer, or soaking in a variety of cleaners and solvents, a very slight orange stain will remain, enough to produce a color shift in your images. Most other varieties are OK, their bowls being completely neutral, as with the one in this photo.
The "direct flash" shield is used to prevent direct light from the pop-up flash falling on your subject. Operating at very close macro-shooting distances, the flash could create heavy overexposure. With this in place on a lens, all lighting is bounced onto your subject using bracket mounted reflectors.
UAC2000 adapter... B&H Photo, $7.95.
Flash shield material... Staples “M by Staples” Arc System Tab Dividers, black polypropylene, 5-5/6” x 8-1/2”, a package of five... $3.99 at Staples.
“Steamer” dinners... most large supermarkets, around $2.89.
Small machine screws, washers, and nuts... for assembling the flash shield and bowl diffuser... almost any hardware store, cheap.
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This past month I brought a new Canon 430ex ii speedlite. I also brought a Gary Fong Lightsphere diffuser. The diffuser comes in handy for portrait photography. I put it to the test along with the Canon 430exii this past Saturday at the Halloween parade and it worked out great.The diffuser straps on the top of the flash with a velcro type strap as you can see in the photo here. It even fits my Nikon sb800 flash unit not bad! I paid $45 for it at the New York photoshow.
For more information on the gary Fong Diffuser check out his video:
www.youtube.com/user/gnx357#p/a/f/0/6l1I7dHXBgY
Or visit the store here:
Stay tuned for my Halloween parade photos next :-)
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.
JJC-FC-26U Flash Diffuser + Gary Fong Puffer (hot glued them together), vellum paper, bubble wrap and plastic holder (cut from the 0,5l Coca Cola bottle)
Cloudy sunrise seascape with waves and rocks at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
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.
DIY flash diffuser made from a country time lemonade canister and foam koozie. The whole setup cost under $4 after tax. In my opinion, aside from the purple koozie, this is one of the more professional looking diffusers I have seen. Michaels didn't have any black koozies, and my almost 2 year-old kept nagging me to get the purple one. I may make a trip out to Joannas to see if they have black, instead.
A view from the top of the freshwater tank shows the holes have been excavated for the dewatering mill building south of the powerhouse.
Entrevista no Digiforum:
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BUCCI - 50mm Quantaray Macro Tech 10 MX AF + Sistema de Flash D.I.Y FLASH DIFFUSER