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Sample of a polypropylene frost look material for the diffuser. Smooth on one side, frosted on the other. Not sure how many layers will be required, but it looks good as far as I can tell.
Update: Ordered a sheet (1300x1000x1.2mm) of the same material really cheap. Enough for as many as 12 layers. Not that I would need that many.
So I read on the net about diffusing the light from the flash on a camera to create a softer light!
I found this white box, which is made from plastic. It's the lid off of one of the many wonderful potions on my wife's dressing table!
It fits perfectly over the flash on my 1000D and gives some nice results!
An IKEA bendable chopping board (1.99 euros a couple)
I've read something similar in a strobist article and I've to try how it works.
The diffuser is only half illuminated to put the bowl with beans in a darker place...
Playing with a diffuser - made a little beauty dish diffuser to try out on the flash. Focus stacked using zerene
I have been making this for over 6 months, 100+ hours, and almost all done with hand tools, I used a bandsaw for the vertical slats,
very happy with how it has turned out. It will go on the backwall of my studio.
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The LED matrix is bright, even at its lowest PWM. The minimum PCB order from China is 5, so the board is designed so one of the spares can be mounted over the matrix to dim it.
Eric Ekblad opens the chute on the bucket for the first concrete into the base of the foundation (about 900 thick). Offsider Bill Hunt waits with the vibrator.
Bounce Card
Read more here
www.kentyuphotography.com/blog/2010/07/complete-diy-bounc...
To create a bounce card, you will need one single black foam mat and one single white foam mat. The flash is pointed upward to light up the white area of the bounce card which is effective soften and diffused. The diffused light is then bounced forward to light up your subject while also bouncing off the ceiling.
Half Snoot
Half Snoot can also be created using one single foam mat. Simply fold it to the required size and hold it in place using an elastic band. The half snoot can be rotated each side very easily. Half snoot is used to minimise lens flare caused by the flash and minimise direct flash to the subject similar to how barn gate works. Half snoot is also useful to block the flash from flashing into the guests behind you.
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Shot at night with DIY flash diffuser and a reversed 50mm on extension tubes.
this is a picture of a home-made flash bracket that can clamp onto doors, furniture, pipes, etc. (bracket from off old fan w/ old ball-head & Nikon flash-foot adapter.
also demo of "honey jar diffuser".
We had a trip to Prague in January – for Jayne’s birthday - we don’t buy Christmas or birthday presents, we travel instead. We left snowy England for a very, very dull and grey Czech Republic. Yet again I was on a photographic downer looking at the weather forecast, grey is the colour that haunts me. Fortunately it was dull grey and not burnt highlight inducing bright grey.With the grey sky acting like a big diffuser I was going to have deep shadow and contrast to deal with. We had three very short spells of broken cloud which gave us a bit of sun and colour, which I managed to more or less anticipate so we managed to be in decent locations every time – generally somewhere high.
We had been upgraded to a five star hotel, apparently our original choice was flooded. We got compensation and five star hotel upgrade– a first for me. The Art Nouveau Palace has a beautiful interior, with beautiful rooms, the breakfast room was fantastic, as was the breakfast it has to be said. We were able to have an early breakfast so were out on foot just after eight. It was very cold – and dull! We spent the whole week well wrapped up. It drizzled for a day, but never really wet us, it snowed for a day, again we didn’t get wet and the snow didn’t settle. We walked 65 mile, spending plenty of time checking buildings and their interiors out – and coffee shop and bar interiors it has to be said. Although it was dull and sometimes wet I decided that the Camera was staying in my hands for the whole trip. Whenever I put it in my backpack for one reason or another I regret it.
Again, I didn’t look at any photographs of Prague before we got there, I like to just walk and discover, with the DK guidebook in my pocket (which is full of photos it has to be said). We like to get off the beaten track and see the grittier side of the places we visit – within reason! Prague has an incredible tram network, over 1000 trams – with many of them Tatra Eastern Bloc machines. The system seems chaotic but in reality it is incredible with one of the largest networks and highest usages in the world. The trams and cars frequently share the same road space with very little in the way of drama, none of the inexplicable and pathetic constant horn blowing one finds in many countries. Once it became apparent that buildings with a grey blanket as a background were going to be a bit un-inspirational I decided that the trams would be a good focal point instead. Where I have photographed one of the older trams against a background without clues it is easy to imagine that the photos were taken fifty years ago.
The train network also provided photo opportunities. The rolling stock ranges from old Eastern Bloc to very modern double decker’s and pendolinos. There are three stations although we visited the main station and Smichov. The main station interior is art deco and has been renovated by a private company. The exterior and the platforms are very rundown with a grim eastern bloc 1950’s feel –but it works! We discovered to our amusement that we could just walk across multiple lines, no health and safety, just keep your eyes open and don’t walk under a train – you’ll make a mess. Smichov station was grim, it didn’t help that it snowed all day and was grey and bitter. We felt like we were in a 50’s film set in Russia, broken concrete platforms and dereliction. With both stations there was another world underneath them. The underground Metro is running seamlessly and efficiently away beneath your feet. I didn’t have any problems taking photos anywhere but I was very open and obviously a tourist, I didn’t act covertly or suspiciously. There was only one occasion I was stopped and that was in a shopping centre – full of CCTV cameras filming everyone else!
We discovered old and beautiful- and very large- shopping centres hidden away in quite a few places. Brass framed windows and doors, shops thriving, there was a massive camera shop with thousands of second hand cameras, too much to look at. Many of the landmark buildings prevent photography, some make a small charge, some encourage it, the DK guide book gives a good indication regarding camera use. Nothing stops many people though, they just shoot away regardless, usually wanting a picture that includes their self. Prague is surrounded by low hills and has a fair few towers that you can pay a few pounds to go up, so viewpoints are plentiful. I think we visited most of them. I read about the Zizkov Tower, which looks like a Soviet rocket on the horizon and we headed straight for it - after crossing the rail lines! Set in a quiet residential area, there wasn’t a soul about. Two beautiful girls on reception and we parted with a few pounds, into the lift and were on the observation deck with no one else up there. There are fantastic views over the city, but! It is through two layers of not very clean glass so you go for the view rather than sharp panoramas. Still a fascinating place, with a nice café bar and very clean toilets – there are toilets everywhere, usually manned with a fee. Places are well staffed compared with home were three students are supposed to run a 20 screen multiplex cinema.
Graffiti was prominent, no matter how grand the monument, some moron would have daubed it. How do they get away with it in a 24 hour city centre with a strong police presence? The place is very clean, constantly being swept. What did surprise me, was that many buildings, that looked grand and built of stone, from a distance, were actually rendered with very low quality brickwork concealed. When restored the building look very impressive, others are missing the outer render from ground level to a fair height.
I need to cut this short really, I like to put a background story to the photos and although it would be better to individualise it to a specific photo or group of photos I don’t have the time to do that. I do try to give specific detail in the title bar after I have uploaded, this is time consuming enough although I’m pretty proficient at it by now. There are many things I would like to write that should be of interest to anyone thinking of going to Prague but I’ll have to let the pictures do the talking. As usual I am unlikely to be selective enough with my uploads, I’m not very good at leaving photos out so I just upload and be damned.
For those who have a strong flash and no flash reduction function, I found a way to make a diffuser. This is just an early version, I may make it more 'elegant' later. I took a whitish or semi-transparent food container and cut that into rectangles. Mine are 2 1/2 by 3 inches. They need to be just big enough to cover the flash, but not the light sensor (or focus whatchmacallit). It took three layers which can be glued together with hot glue or epoxy or rubber cement etc...
To attatch it to the pop-up style flash I used a child safety plug for electrical outlets. (also in that whitish plastic) (see next photo). The layers get glued to that and when done, it slips right under the flash housing! The prongs keep it in place for most use. If you have a flat flash, I'm sure you can figure out a different method for holding it on...and you might want another layer of plastic. These flashes are strong and it takes that many layers to dim them a bit! There is also at least one commercially made diffuser, but it doesn't fit all cameras :-)