Get a cheap, DIY lens hood or flash filter: A lens hood--like the kind you can print yourself--prevents glare, flare, and other light tricks beaming in from just around your lens edges. Similarly, a piece of white coffee filter can work wonders for diffusing your flash, giving bar shots and other low-light situations a much mellower light
Posted by: Anonymous on December 21, 2008 at 10:59 AM
DIY Flash diffuser: Milk carton, or if you really need to tone down a flash, yogurt container. That's what we use for underwater photography when the little diffusers that come with the flashes get lost.
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DIY Flash diffuser: Milk carton, or if you really need to tone down a flash, yogurt container. That's what we use for underwater photography when the little diffusers that come with the flashes get lost.
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I've also heard that the semi-opaque film canisters make for great diffusers for pop-up camera flashes. It might have been a MAKE article, even.
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