I find it much easier to use the inverse square law and the aperture to make the problem go away. If you are shooting in a room that is small enough to bounce a lot of light around, you will have problems with most modifiers.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
