2009.08.25 "Unusual Light Source" discussion

Snarkasm

Care to explain, shwaiples?

(Thank you for posting. I'm still trying to get through my pictures from my trip. )

GnomeQueen

I see shwaiples has got some manly beardage going on there.

Ryder

Yes, what is that "light source"?

shwaip

I made a "diffuser" out of a sheet of printer paper and 6 staples, and taped it to my 430exII flash. I connected it to my camera with my ettl cable. I tweaked the flash's power (metered flash was too weak, full power over exposed everything) until it looked like that.

And yes, I do indeed have the beard.

I would have liked to be able to isolate myself from the background more (maybe shoot outside) so the only thing lit was me with a black background behind me.

Marushka

shwaip thats awesome. and the beard is hot.

here was mine. I would have liked to play more with different lighting ideas since snark gave me such great ideas but time is starting to run short. I decided to take a pic of the lamp that is forced to light my entire room.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40153539@N08/3868784569/&quot; title="8/25/09 Unusual Light Source by vertatle, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2631/3868784569_c79e233336.jpg&quot; width="500" height="375" alt="8/25/09 Unusual Light Source" /></a>

shwaip

I like it a lot. The white balance. The detail in the lampshade (esp. at large size). Just the overall pic is great.

Marushka

wow thank thats really nice! Staring at it, I could have done a lot of quick things to make it better, like move the clutter out of the way.