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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.
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*)
No two waves are alike and that's what I like when I shoot the coast. You can never replicate a shot. You will have a completely different picture whether it is a rising, crashing, advancing or receding wave. Add low, rising, high tide, day time, night time, blue hour, golden hour, long exposure, frozen frame ... well you get the picture why I like to hang around the same spot.
Crude but quite effective. Speedlight, packaging foam and tinfoil: www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/38419744001/
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.
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 :)
Tropical flower, Hibiscus, on soft background with bokeh.
Texture used: Bokeh 01 by Alex Edgar www.flickr.com/photos/alexedg/2661904495/in/album-7215760...
I've been on a bit of a DIY rampage lately, and this is one of the things I've actually finished. Did this a few weeks ago but I figured it's time to show and tell.
It's a flash diffuser made from a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Why? Mostly to soften the harsh shadows created by using a flash. I found this tutorial to get me started, but after a little experimenting I think this shape/size seems to work the best. It's got enough surface area to illuminate an entire room if needed, but it's small enough to not take up much extra space in your camera bag. I also added some bits of velcro to keep it in place more snugly. Yeah, there are plenty of commercial products that do the same thing more consistently and reliably, but this will do for now.
My wife, Leona, aka the Photon Wrangler, with a Westcott Scrim Jim diffuser, 4' x 4', used for the previous photo of Lycoris squamigera. The camera is a Canon R5 with a Canon RF 100mm macro lens. It's mounted on a Manfrotto MT057C3-G 057 Carbon Fiber tripod with a Manfrotto magnesium ball head.
strobist info:
pop up flash with diffuser as trigger @ 1/8
sb-900 with diffuser @ 1/4 camera left
This is from the same set as the last couple of beach pics. This is more of me playing around with the off camera flash, I'm starting to get the hang of using it manually with just the pop up flash as the trigger.
This was early in the morning, like around 8:00am and we ended up staying there for like 7 or 8 hours. It was a different beach experience than what we were used to because it was that early there's still little fish in the water and tons of mosquitoes and nasty bugs that bite along with the heat and really strong sun that burned us. So after everything Alis went through I felt bad not posting something from the shooting we did in the morning.
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)
10 sec, f/2.8, ISO 8000 | Nikon D4 + 14-24mm f/2.8G
Yellowknife, CA, 2 Apr 2014
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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.