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The inside is lined with HVAC tape, and there are 3 spaced layers of 100% nylon trim fabric. This material does not block much light, but it sure does spread it out. 3 layers gets good results, and you can see that with the pictures on this page.
There are many unique details about this diffuser, so I've posted a fuller description of it at:
This is actually a photograph! I took a heart shaped box and put it at an oblique angle to some tracing paper then back lit the whole thing. Amazingly some of the red came through. The only retouching is some raw adjustment and a high pass filter in Photoshop to bring up the texture of the paper.
Small, Flat, Diffused, light.
I would like to tweak this pic to bring out the highlights a bit more on the closer broken branch. It's a bit too flat at this time.
Some pictures to try my prototype diffuser fins out.
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My women's club had our annual "year end" dinner tonight.
As president of the inter-chapter council, I was given the wrist corsage to wear, a long-stemmed rose and a gift certificate.
I was also honoured with a certificate and rose because I was chosen as the "Woman of the Year" by my own chapter.
Portrait in full sun at 11am on the beach in Santa Barbara. I diffused the sun with a 52" Calumet zip disk.
I was mesmerized when I saw this scene because the lighting was just so good. It was so good it reminded me of those cars ads, you know the ones with perfect lighting, and you know that’s because behind the camera they are using very professional light diffusers to expose all angles properly! I think the sunlight’s reflection by the water made similar effect in this scene :)
(Ontario Place. Toronto, ON; summer 2008.)
Found these bottles at The Container Store. Just looked like the right size for a flash diffuser. I chose to cut off as little as possible but you could make the diffuser somewhat shorter to your liking. Bottle cost about $2.99 and fits the inside retainer of the Vivtar 285HV perfectly.
tried to make my own diffuser (shown here) to produce a better flash effect on my subjects. The other 2 pics illustrate this effect on Mazinger Z.
Made from a small cardboard box and some pieces of transluscent weighing paper and held by staples n tape.
I made a new flash diffuser tonight. I have been dissatisfied with my other one pretty much since the first day I started using it, but I haven't been motivated to change it until I got the MP-E and have seen its flaws exposed more than ever.
I think the performance is pretty good so far with the new one. It's basically a sliced-up water jug wrapped in paper towels that attaches to the camera rather than the flash. The trick is angling the flash on the bracket to avoid causing the lens to cast a shadow on the subject. I think I'll need to get a couple more parts to fix this problem beyond 4:1. For now, though, I'm pretty happy with it. This earwig (the only test subject I could find so late) really didn't cast any shadows, and the reflections were kept to a minimum. All in all a decent effort so far, I think. I look forward to trying it in the daylight.