Flash diffuser

I just made the least flash flash diffuser imaginable. I cut a hole in an old, plastic ostrich-burger box we have used to store Xmas tree baubles in for the last seventeen years and fitted it to the camera with a redundant ring flash adapter. I switched away from ringflash earlier this year as it’s simply not good enough for decent entomological macro shots.
Mimulus #PondLife
Viper’s Bugloss
Periwinkle
Red Valerian
Poppy
Cornflower
Ceanothus fruit
Yarrow flower buds

Anyway, been testing the ad hoc diffuser with some random macro shots of flowers in the garden – Mimulus (#PondLife), cornflower, wet poppy, red valerian, periwinkle, viper’s bugloss, yarrow buds, ceanothus fruit, and fading yellow wildflower…
It seems to work quite well…considering
The diffuser attached to the macro lens
Provenance

Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 5, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs