Suggestions for DIY flash diffusion?

What material can I use to make a slip cover for my built in flash that will diffuse into a softer light?
Ya, I am that cheap!

A piece of computer paper and rubber band.

If you want less diffusion, two tissues and a rubber band.

How To Make A Better Bounce Card:

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=RNCmuExlHvM&e​url=

Tom D

Dante,

Sending some of the photons from your flash in a different direction won't necessarily create a better light source. If it was easy and cheap to make the light "softer" just by putting some translucent material in front of it, then they would be manufactured that way.

What are you trying to accomplish?

txduggan wrote in post #2187241
How To Make A Better Bounce Card:

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=RNCmuExlHvM&e​url=

Tom D

That guy was amazing, but she said built in.

You could try putting some hose over the flash - a hose sock from the shoe shop?

rhys wrote in post #2187837
You could try putting some hose over the flash - a hose sock from the shoe shop?

I believe that all that will do is reduce the capacity of the flash and change the color of the light.

Shutter22 wrote in post #2187403
That guy was amazing, but she said built in.

He said. Perhaps the avatar made you think I was a woman; that is my wife.

But you are correct, I did say built in.

txduggan wrote in post #2187241
How To Make A Better Bounce Card:

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=RNCmuExlHvM&e​url=

Tom D

Holy his omnibounce is so yello! Haha. I use that photo paper!

Curtis N wrote in post #2187402
Dante,

What are you trying to accomplish?

I am looking to simply create a softer glow and not such a hard light. When photographing people or objects up-close, though I can control the flash level, I still would like to reduce shine off skin, glare of glasses and otherwise occasional blown out areas or partial reflective surfaces. With a built in flash, obviously I am unable to reproduce the directional diffusion and do the type of rig as in the video (thanks Shutter22), or similar things with cards. That is why I wondered if there is something I could put over the built in flash, or if there is something I could make that would give me directional firing with a built in, or even better, both.

DanteCaspian wrote in post #2187953
When photographing people or objects up-close, though I can control the flash level, I still would like to reduce shine off skin, glare of glasses and otherwise occasional blown out areas or partial reflective surfaces.

Things like that are hard to eliminate without bouncing the light off the ceiling or moving it off camera. Even my Lumiquest Pocket Bouncer, which creates an effective light source about 7 inches wide and 4 inches high, can give me shiny foreheads, eyeglass glare and other hot spots.

Still, there's little harm in experimenting. Try a piece of translucent plastic cut from an empty milk jug.

Cool, will do!

I hear plastic cut from gallon milk jugs works really well. I am all about lumiquest soft box flash attachments. They dont break the bank.

Aw man, I originally had he

One of the guys in a photography class I took used the translucent lid from a Pringles can. Said it worked wonders!