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Mounting this rig on the manfrotto tripod was painful. I had to use an off shoe flash cable, angle eye piece, remote trigger, Flash angle bracket and some sweat and tears. The Bellows shape does not allow it to be directly mounted on the tripod and the Flash bracket was mounted backwards to accommodate this.
The flash is taken off and held close to the subject when taking the photo. The bracket is just to temporarily hold the flash and the camera to the tripod whilst composing the shot.
I have a Gary Fong CloudSphere diffuser. After looking into macro photography I saw online how to make your own Coke can diffuser (By Lord V) that works well for Macro Photography. I am using it with a 150 mm Bellows, Canon EX550, Canon 30D ISO 200 and shutter speed 200, Flash set to ettl. I am still playing however it seems to work well. I still need a real Macro lens however my experimentation has been fun.
Here's the Lord V thread.
www.flickr.com/groups/macroviewers/discuss/72157594312315...
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We’re all conscious of how our home smells and electric diffusers UK wide are becoming an increasingly popular way of freshening up indoor spaces. But why opt for these over other solutions?
First, candles and air fresheners are all very well, but naked flames can increase fire risk; and commercial air fresheners are often packed with unpleasant chemicals that can cause health problems. Electric diffuser UK wide use natural essential oils that can offer positive health benefits and because they’re powered by electricity, there’s no chance of setting fabrics alight. Secondly, speaking of health benefits, you can choose which fragrance you use to enhance the atmosphere in your home. Lavender oil, for instance, reduces stress while peppermint oil can increase energy and curb your appetite. Third, diffused essential oils have been proven to reduce mould and bacteria in indoor spaces by breaking down the free radicals that encourage their growth. And fourthly, essential oils last a long time in comparison to expensive air fresheners, saving you money longer-term.
And because many electric diffusers UK wide come with an automatic shut-off, you don’t need to worry about forgetting to switch them off either.
A dirt cheap diffuser for my Metz 45CL3. The bowl is a poly food container ( UK cost 60 pence ). Lined with kitchen foil that has been crunched up then flattened out. Front face is a double layer of kitchen cloth taped to the bowl, but almost anything would probably do as long as it is sufficient to force the light to bounce around inside the bowl before exiting. Well impressed by the light from this, and it has had a lot of use.
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.
Diffuse - The Dictionary of Image.
I am really pleased with how this has turned out. I took this image in a quiet moment at work. I was mixing up some agar mixed with indicator fluid, for an experiment with various molarities of acids. I noticed that the indicator fluid turned the nutrient agar mixture this bright green (acid then turns it pink) and thought it looked really interesting. Then I shook the McCartney bottles up to mix them, before autoclaving them, and thought this then looked even better.
The idea to add the definition of diffuse came to me in a sudden flash of inspiration, when I saw one of my contacts Dictionary of Image submissions, defining 'separation'. I just thought that this worked alongside it nicely.
The text was added with the Gimp, and the font is Andalus.
The definition is from the on-line dictionary service, dictionary.com.
dif·fuse
adjective
–verb (used with object)
1.to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
2.to spread or scatter widely or thinly; disseminate.
3.Physics. to spread by diffusion.
–verb (used without object)
4.to spread.
5.Physics. to intermingle by diffusion.
–adjective
6.characterized by great length or discursiveness in speech or writing; wordy.
7.widely spread or scattered; dispersed.
8.Botany. widely or loosely spreading.
9.Optics. (of reflected light) scattered, as from a rough surface (opposed to specular).
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME (< AF) < L diffūsus spread, poured forth.]
I'd seen someone put a ping-pong ball on LEDs to diffuse them so I tried it. Here's a word of caution though. Don't try to burn a hole in a ping-pong ball because it will explode... Mine did and once I had put it out, I started to walk away from half of a melted ping-pong ball on the carpet. All of a sudden, I saw a burst of orange light and I turned around to see the re-ignited ping-pong ball blazing on the melting carpet...
F82 M4 with Eisenmann 4x90mm tips + 3D Design carbon diffuser 2x2 weave + M-Performance trunk spoiler + HRE R101's
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.
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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.
Led flash diffuser. This diffuser will be built Into the LED flash module. I have a gap of 38mm stamped for the Mitutoyo lens.
The tool to make this hole:
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Update:
Softball is a 12 inch type, not 9 inch as market on the picture!
You need to view the largest size to see this comparison. Series of single shots taken with and without diffusers at two different apertures. the shots are near 100% crops of photos taken at 3:1 magnification.
Diffuser 1 is 3 layers of styrofoam wrap - light loss approx 1 stop.
Diffuser 2 is a back projection material, light loss approx 2 stops.
Both applied to one of my coke can frames.
The main point being the difference between using a diffuser and not. The diffuser helps remove specular highlights in the hairs but with a reduction in contrast over the image which affects how detail is seen.
I ran across the tutorial here, but it’s just a cigarette pack with the foil facing inside. And some plastic stapled to the front so the light diffuses higher and a little better. Also it works infinitely better if the flash faces you and you bounce it off a ceiling or something.
I’m actually pretty sure it would hold up reasonably well under more practical shooting situations. You know, the kind with people in. Except it looks like some hobo taped shit onto my camera so that’s a little embarrassing.
Yeah a Speedlite would be cool, but this cost me 4¢.
Diffuse filling of alveoli with polymorphonuclear leukocytes and fibrin.
Image contributed by Dr. Yale Rosen - @yro854
29-year-old female with untreated hyperthyroidism, goiter, and dysphagia. The gross thyroidectomy specimen weighed 132 g.
Quick add-on diffuser - part of a plastic disposable dish clipped onto the end of the MPE-65.
The diffuser worked well but tended to scare off bugs before I could shoot them.
Used for this shot www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/4565147894/ and crop www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/4565147898/
75% crop of a fruit fly taken at 3:1 (ie 1/4 of the image) taken with my normal coke-can diffuser. see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/2869278359/ for same shot without diffuser
A diffuser hack for a Omnibounce/Lambency type of lighting.
Made on Christmas Eve after taking a bunch of bounced-flash pictures of the family. Inspiration came from all the other diffuser/baretube hacks that have been floating around the 'net for the last few years.
It's a high-density polyethylene (PE-HD) bottle which used to hold lactose and was left over from one of the kids' medical treatments. Luckily the hole was cut accurately enough that it grips the flash body without needing extra tape, bands or velcro.
The female Evarcha species on a flash diffuser.
This female Jumping Spider, an Evarcha species, was found in a similar place to the male Evarcha falcata. However, looking it up later it didn't seem be consistent with a female Evarcha falcata, but more like E.arcuata. Although there is one feature missing, and that is the dark cardiac stripe. It looks like a not completely mature specimen.
Any second opinions on the species are welcome as E.arcuata has not been found on this site/area before. I'll be searching for another individual now to confirm the species.
Empidideicus hungaricus (Diptera, Mythicomyidae) feeding on the Tripleurospermum flower. Size: 1.5mm.
Single handheld exposure at 5x magnification with the MP-E65 lens. Shooting info: ƒ/8, 1/160s, ISO 250. Illuminated with diffused flashlight. Subsequently cropped image.
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