Jason has a great write up about the advantages of using a flash diffuser and an off-camera flash. He has a bunch of great examples, and a nice tutorial at the end of his article. After seeing the results, you will want to try it out too!
I'm going to talk about how to make a cheap slave flash, and, how to make a free / super cheap, on camera flash diffuser for Nikon, and really any other camera with a pop up top flash
Posted by: jdw242b on January 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM
diffusers on the cheap
for Canon S2 IS users like me, frosted white 35mm film canisters can be cut to fit right on the flash and gives the desired result like the above 'made' fix.
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for Canon S2 IS users like me, frosted white 35mm film canisters can be cut to fit right on the flash and gives the desired result like the above 'made' fix.
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Yes you can, and it's a great trick! We covered it on the MAKE blog:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/08/film_canister_flash_diffu.html
I haven't tried it myself yet, but I have the film canister all ready to hack.
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