Good diffusion materials?

V

vaizki

Suspended / Banned
Messages
1,048
Name
Jukka
Edit My Images
No
My wife is an avid food blogger and takes all her own pics, but she doesn't have time to play around with setting up softboxes etc (and I need to get fed too!) to light a food shot. So she does them on a tripod and long exposure or using the 17-55/2.8 IS and just shoots a LOT of images to pick a good one.

What I've been considering is rigging a semi-permanent flash fixture in the kitchen which would be easily put away and attached to a shelf as needed but articulating like one of those desk lamps. Or possibly even turning the underside of one kitchen cabinet into a flash :geek:

So any suggestions on diffusion materials, especially rigid / flexible ones so that I don't need a separate frame skeleton like with cloth? Or if you've seen/built something like this, all ideas welcome :help: I will probably power it off 1-2 YN flashes (depending on the final design) so the diffuser sucking up power is not going to be a problem at all. In fact I might need an ND filter somewhere even at 1/128 power..

I have a roll of this stuff from IKEA:
http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/23151_PE098251_S4.jpg
Need to experiment with it.. it's transparent and nice large dimples on it, but it's not really rigid. Also no idea what it will do to the color temp.
 
Last edited:
Wh not just get a small diffuser, such as....

tom1.jpg
 
Is that you Graham?
 
Why aren't their slippers matching?

Jukka: there are corrugated translucent plastics you should be able to find.
 
Last edited:
I think that's Tomas Whitehouse's dad :)

And yes one of those could be an option.. but I'd prefer something I can set up in a fixed configuration and the light should come from 2 directions if possible. A bit like a Canon twinlight but diffused.

Another option might be a ringflash for the camera now that I think of it.
 
Akylux or Correx is the rigid material.
 
Thanks photon, Correx looks pretty good to me. A bit like the stuff used in greenhouse walls.. I should maybe look that stuff up too.

I'll post if I ever get this done :)
 
You could try some sheets of diffuser from Lee Filters, like thin sheets of plastic that are easy to tape to a frame and quite cheap, probably less than a £10 for what you would need
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top