I've got a couple of shoot through umbrellas that work pretty well, with the minor issue that since they bounce a lot of light back the way it came, they work almost more like light grenades, throwing photons indiscriminately in every direction.
I just realized that with the clamps on my white lightning, I could cut a hole in some posterboard to mount it on the flash, run the shaft of the umbrella through it, and end up with a light source that is fairly diffuse and pretty much only shoots light forward. I'd rather have a big softbox, but that would cost $50 or $100, and a sheet of posterboard is closer to $5. Less, if I use one of the beat up pieces that I bought for backdrops a few years ago. I'm curious whether anyone has tried something like this, and if so, how well it works, or rather what it works well, or poorly, for. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
