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Owen Clarke
27th of April 2004 (Tue), 20:06
Was experimenting with lighting set up for my 300d and 550 ex just bought a softbox for the 550 ex which gives a nice lighting effect but was messing around with bounce flash and tried this very simple idea. Proabably been done before and there probably is professional equipment for this purpose but just wanted to pass on a cheap effecitve way of doing this. I glued a piece of premium photo gloss to a piece of a4 card (got this out of the gloss paper packet) stuck a piece of velcro to the paper and the flash and hey presto gives a great even lighting effect cheap,simple and effective
http://www.owenclarkephotography.com/IMG_0001.jpg
DaveG
28th of April 2004 (Wed), 06:49
Was experimenting with lighting set up for my 300d and 550 ex just bought a softbox for the 550 ex which gives a nice lighting effect but was messing around with bounce flash and tried this very simple idea. Proabably been done before and there probably is professional equipment for this purpose but just wanted to pass on a cheap effecitve way of doing this. I glued a piece of premium photo gloss to a piece of a4 card (got this out of the gloss paper packet) stuck a piece of velcro to the paper and the flash and hey presto gives a great even lighting effect cheap,simple and effective
http://www.owenclarkephotography.com/IMG_0001.jpg

I used to do the same thing but with a piece of white corrigated plastic. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Maybe the corrigated plastic will be a bit stiffer and that's good, but yours looks fine. I am glad to see that you made it big. Big is what softens the lght, not diffusion, since a point light source is very harsh. Big, and close to the subject makes the light soft.

I've also added velcro to the side of the flash head as well. That way I can use a card to flag off an off camera flash to prevent flare.
sp00g3
28th of April 2004 (Wed), 08:03
This should be moved to tips thread.. Thats pretty slick. Gotta ask.. is it at all cumbersome?
Owen Clarke
28th of April 2004 (Wed), 15:11
Not really used it today doing a shoot of three kids it worked great . Try it and see what u think