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01/23/2013 05:19:31 PM · #51 |
I found this list of home made hacks for your flash. Beamers, bouncecards, even a ring flash.
There is somewhere a list of ways to modify your popup flash. All too often I find I have left the flash at home and I need some help filling in shadows but fear the sharp shadows of the popup. #4 works indoors, but even better is using a clear film canister (the fiji type) with a slit cut in the side to slip over the flash, and you have a portable omnibounce with that softness to fill in without taking over. |
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01/23/2013 05:24:00 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
... even better is using a clear film canister (the fiji type) with a slit cut in the side to slip over the flash, and you have a portable omnibounce with that softness to fill in without taking over. |
Hey, I have a couple of those sitting on top of my computer ... ;-) |
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01/24/2013 07:09:34 AM · #53 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
I found this list of home made hacks for your flash. .. |
Does that list include bubblewrap, I wonder...:-) |
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01/24/2013 07:30:44 AM · #54 |
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01/28/2013 11:00:16 AM · #55 |
Ok now that photo within a photo challenge has ended, I can post an image showing the flash shadow. (Yeah I know the photo's not level, ah well) If you look at the floor in the two images you can see that I moved back only a few inches, but still was a good 6-7 feet from the wall behind me where the shadow is visible.  here is the entry: 
So moving forward a tiny bit might have helped but I still think the bubble-wrapped flash was the main reason I lost the flash shadow.
Message edited by author 2013-01-28 11:02:11. |
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01/28/2013 11:28:27 AM · #56 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
i dont have a popup flash... :( |
I view that as a positive feature of the 5DmkII. ;) |
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01/28/2013 01:21:14 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
Ok now that photo within a photo challenge has ended, I can post an image showing the flash shadow. (Yeah I know the photo's not level, ah well) If you look at the floor in the two images you can see that I moved back only a few inches, but still was a good 6-7 feet from the wall behind me where the shadow is visible. here is the entry:
So moving forward a tiny bit might have helped but I still think the bubble-wrapped flash was the main reason I lost the flash shadow. |
Shadows are in direct relation to the size of the light source compared to the subject. A distance closer to the subject with a smaller source can be just as effective as a very large source far away from the subject. Imagine the sun being a very large source but far away and how harsh the shadows are. But put a small flash in an umbrella close to your subject just see how soft the shadows are.
What you created with bubble wrap was a very large light source(essentially every wall in the room that wrapped the subject with light rather then being more directional from a small source.
Message edited by author 2013-01-28 13:22:05. |
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01/28/2013 04:59:17 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by MattO:
...What you created with bubble wrap was a very large light source(essentially every wall in the room that wrapped the subject with light rather then being more directional from a small source. |
Yep, thatès what i figured I had to do, still get lit but break up the light source, which the little bubblewrap cells seemed to do quite nicely. Now that I can get shadowless well-lit scenes, look out world!!
*rushing off to patent office with bubblewrap flash-diffuser plans* |
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