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Hi everybody!
This time i will explain how to build a free and easy Flash Diffuser.
As everyone knows, flashing directly to the subject will cause it to be "whitened" and so, we will have a great loss in details.
That's why we need to bounce the flash light on a reflective surface (white if possible) as discussed in my previous post "Making a cheap Bounce Card"
Actually you stop here and can go buy a Flash Diffuser from eBay or photography shops, or you can read furthemore!
This time i will explain how to build a free and easy Flash Diffuser.
As everyone knows, flashing directly to the subject will cause it to be "whitened" and so, we will have a great loss in details.
That's why we need to bounce the flash light on a reflective surface (white if possible) as discussed in my previous post "Making a cheap Bounce Card"
Actually you stop here and can go buy a Flash Diffuser from eBay or photography shops, or you can read furthemore!
Flash Diffuser for External Flash Unit
Ingredients:
- an opaque can of Liquid Soap/Detergent
- a can of Pringles
Ingredients:
- an opaque can of Liquid Soap/Detergent
- a can of Pringles
1) Cut the Pringles can, eating them meanwhile, in a 5cm to 10cm small piece and insert white paper inside the border of it (pringles inside can have gray reflective surface)
2) Cut the bottom of the liquid soap/detergent can so that some cm of the closed bottom will actually go out from the pringles can in the final flash diffuser.
2) Cut the bottom of the liquid soap/detergent can so that some cm of the closed bottom will actually go out from the pringles can in the final flash diffuser.
3) Put it together with some black tape if the diameter doesen't fit perfectly (mine fitted perfectly)
4) That's all! Here you can see the result in taking picture flashing directily to the subject without and with the Flash Diffuser we just made. While without the Flash Diffuser you can see that the subject (pringles can) is overexposed by flash light, with the Flash Diffuser ON, there is no overxposed subject, and details are bettere than without it.
Actually the pringles can should fit almost every external flash unit!
Flash Diffuser for Internal Flash Unit (DSLR)
Ingredients:
- an empty white opaque film can
Just cut a little stripe of the film can just to let your internal flash fit inside it.
Here how it should look like and how it will fit the internal flash unit of your dslr
Those are the one i made:
As everytime, if you liked it, please share it!
Ingredients:
- an empty white opaque film can
Just cut a little stripe of the film can just to let your internal flash fit inside it.
Here how it should look like and how it will fit the internal flash unit of your dslr
As everytime, if you liked it, please share it!
I just hit a webpage in which it explains how to make a Remote Release Cord for Minolta and Sony S/DLSR!
In that link you will find schematic of the camera connection so to quickly make a release cord which really cost if you want to buy it in a store!
Check out:
- Minolta
- Sony
- Canon or here or here or for N3connector
- Nikon or here
Or a general PDF on how to make your own trigger or here
Basically you have to shortcircuit some pins on the camera.
You can do that by using a simple 2way switch.
Here is the pin schematics on the Sony Alpha Series
In that link you will find schematic of the camera connection so to quickly make a release cord which really cost if you want to buy it in a store!
Check out:
- Minolta
- Sony
- Canon or here or here or for N3connector
- Nikon or here
Or a general PDF on how to make your own trigger or here
Basically you have to shortcircuit some pins on the camera.
You can do that by using a simple 2way switch.
Here is the pin schematics on the Sony Alpha Series
I cut one of the two side of the CD-Audio cable so to use the black 4pin female part
The other side of the cable will be attache to the switch.
It has 3 little cables, one red (1), one white (2) and one without rubber around it (3)
It has 3 little cables, one red (1), one white (2) and one without rubber around it (3)
The switch has 3 pins (let's call them left, center and right). I soldered the (1) and (3) little cables of the cd-audio cable to the left pin of the switch and the (2) little cable to the center pin of the switch, and here is the result.
Whenever i push the button, my camera shoots!
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Whenever i push the button, my camera shoots!
If you liked my How-to, please Share!
