How to Use Light Diffusers in Photography

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When you are shooting with the flash you almost always need a diffuser of some kind and I just wanted to show you a couple of easy ways to get that without necessarily investing in a soft box or even the umbrella if you don't have it. Now this reflector, which believe is invaluable, first of all, it collaspes, so it is extremely easy to bring anywhere with you and it also has several different sides, the white side, a gold side, it's completely reversible, so on the inside it has a variation on the gold and also a silver but even more important is the diffuser I use all the time and I am sure it's probably cutting a little bit too much of the light from this flash but you can use this to diffuse the sun or your strobes by just putting it right and positioning it right in front of your strobe lights, so that is one way. Another way is to take a simple piece of foam core like this and just cut out the center so that you have a frame and then tape tissue paper to it, they are great because they are really light but they are not that durable, so it won't last you very long but it is an easy way again, you just position that in front of your light and it diffuses the light. Finally I found a terrific solution for diffusing my flash, this little piece of plastic, I believe it is called a omni-bounce, was I think fifteen dollars and it just slides right over the top and does a great job of diffusing the light of the flash. In addition you can also just take a piece of tracing paper or tissue paper and loop that over your flash, so you have a couple of different options that don't cost a lot of money for getting a more diffused light source.

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