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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!
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.
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.
Aero:
VRS Front Splitter
VRS Rear Diffuser
VRS Aero Wing
Wheels: V-FF 105
Finish: Gloss Black
(F) 20" x 8.5" et30
(R) 20" x 11" et27
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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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.
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)
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.