View allAll Photos Tagged diffuser
Last year, I had the chance to work with the Beach Tourism Monitoring Team (BTMT) of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). They are one of those guys responsible for the rehabilitation of Boracay Island. On this day, we went there to celebrate the anniversary of its rehab and to monitor its improvement and status. I was able to borrow a Digital SLR for that trip and having limited knowledge and experience with it, I opted for the easiest way for me; put it on manual settings just like how I would shoot with my Film SLR. :p I will be sharing some of my favorite shots and here is one of them.
This is not my picture. Is is an edit for Nellie Vin's. Working on colors.
www.flickr.com/groups/nellievinfineart/discuss/7215760539...
Inexpensive diffuser. Made from an 8.5 x 11 piece of cover stock (67 lb white paper). Two cuts allow me to wrap the bottom of the card around the SB800 flash head and secure it with rubber bands. I can bend the paper to catch more of the light if needed.
This acts as a large area light source so the shadows it produces are softer. In Landscape orientation you get shadows below the subject, just like the SB800 with the white pop-up card, but softer. In Portrait orientation the shadows are to one side.
The card directs the light forward, not like plastic diffusers which send the light in all directions. If you don't bend the card to catch most of the light you can also have some bounce light from the ceiling (if it's low enough) which will help moderate shadows.
Beautiful morning to be out and about...I was on the mountain at 6am this morning.
Heaven up there:)
Saw these doors in a gloomy part of the building and had to shoot this. It reminded me immediately of my regular UE partners awesome shot from GT. www.flickr.com/photos/47386156@N02/7515751554/in/set-7215...
Taken with an old Box camera without a name. I used Kodak Porta 400 BW film. This is the best negative from that roll... :) Anyway, I kind of like this photo, despite the crappy quality.
The first modification I made was to cover the outer faces of the box with black sugar paper. This made it light tight. I still have to light tight the hole in the side.
1) Flash on with no diffuser
2) Flash on with diffuser
3) Plastic container that had glaze/icing for Pillsbury cinnamon breakfast pastries.
4) Example of placement.
Photo Specs (Both Photos):
~ Focal Len = 70mm
~ Shutter = 1/60 Sec
~ f-stop = 9
~ ISO = 200
~ Expos Comp = 0 EV
~ Flash Mode = TTL
~ Flash Comp = 0 EV
** October 2010: This rig is very outdated but remains to show the progression of my setups through my Camera Gear set. You can view my most current and often-used setup here.**
Flash on, next picture is flash off.
Flash diffuser mounted (with tape, for now...I spent a long time making an elaborate wire support, and it didn't work out. Oh well.) Looks rough, works great. I actually have to diffuse it further with paper for many subjects, it is so bright.
Can also see my rig with the kit lens (18-55) mounted in reverse in front of my 60mm macro with a 62-52mm step-down ring and a 52mm male-male reversing ring. I have to hold the aperture on the front lens open manually; ten staples happen to be the perfect size to do so (older SLR lenses had a ring, which made it much easier).
It's a crappy shot, just uploaded for the tech aspect. Sorry for the poor quality, taken with old point-and-shoot.
Diffused Light/Backfill: I think this is a great example of both diffused light and backfill light. This was shortly before sunset, so the woods were still quite illuminated. I wanted a silhouette of the cross, so I kept my EV at 0. Not only did I capture the silhouette, but you can see the soft fuzzy shadows the trees created in the back. I set my WB to ‘sunny’ since it produced a much better “naked eye” image.
Kudos to Lord V for the design and prototyping, thanks to Tescos for the duct tape and coke for the raw materials
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.
My dad made a pretty cool diffuser for my aunt, the wedding photographer.
Create a diffuser by cutting out a rectangle from a sheet of opaque white plastic about 6 or 8 inches long and the width of your flash.
Attatch velcro to the bottom edge of the diffuser. Wrap velcro around the end of the flash. Point the flash up towards the ceiling and attach the diffuser to the back of the flash, away from the subject.
When taking a vertical shot, twist the flash around so it faces the ceiling again. Remove the diffuser and reattach it on the side of the flash so it faces the subject again.
See discussion of this in the technique group.
This is a diffuser for placing between a gas hob and saucepan. It both spreads the heat more evenly and reduces the amount of heat that gets through to the saucepan base, allowing for very slow cooking. Over eight years of use it has acquired patterning from corrosion and burnt-on spillages.
Another diffuser idea, plastic bottle :) Cut the hole at the end, slide diffuser all the the way in for maximum flash power, slide the sleeve up for more diffusion.
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
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell S1063 with a diffuse glow of stars not belonging to any galaxy.
Image source: hubblesite.org/image/4294/news
Original caption: Amid the bright light of its member galaxies, the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 also emits a soft glow of intracluster light, produced by stars that are not part of any individual galaxy. These stars were scattered throughout the cluster long ago, when their home galaxies were torn apart by the cluster's gravitational forces. The homeless stars eventually aligned themselves with the gravity of the overall cluster. Hubble's unique sensitivity and resolution captures the faint light and uses it to trace the location of invisible dark matter, which dominates the cluster's gravitational field.
Tags
Frontier Fields, Galaxy Clusters, Hubble Telescope, Observations
Credits
NASA, ESA, and M. Montes (University of New South Wales)