Which diffuser for indoor / club photography?

Richdog · 13 Aug 2015 at 11:31

I am starting to get asked to do more events and I notice that my basic white plastic stofen diffuser on my flash is not the greatest performer when it comes to spreading soft light evenly on my photos of people, if it is too direct then the light is very harsh, and if it is pointing up then it doesn't spread and throw the light well enough.

I was looking at the Gary Fong Lightsphere which seems to be well rated and has good reviews... can anyone please vouch for this or are there any other recommendations?

greedy123 · 13 Aug 2015 at 11:46

I use a lumiquest bigbounce which does a good job. Lumiquest have a number of options though, worth a look.

Raymond Lin · 13 Aug 2015 at 12:14

I'm waiting for my Madmod haul to arrive...not cheap though!

D.P. · 13 Aug 2015 at 12:18

I have a Garry Fong, it seems to do what it says on the tiny somewhat expensive for what it is but it works and supposedly works better than most of the cheap knockoffs.

Raymond Lin · 13 Aug 2015 at 12:23

D.P. said:
I have a Garry Fong, it seems to do what it says on the tiny somewhat expensive for what it is but it works and supposedly works better than most of the cheap knockoffs.

I have a knock off of that, it works.

But I find nothing beats bouncing off the ceiling (providing the room size and wall colour is suitable)

Richdog · 13 Aug 2015 at 13:10

greedy123 said:
I use a lumiquest bigbounce which does a good job. Lumiquest have a number of options though, worth a look.

The bigbounce is too big. Will check the other options though, thanks.

Raymond Lin said:
I'm waiting for my Madmod haul to arrive...not cheap though!

Hmm the Magsphere lokos like a viable alternative to the fong, will check it out!

D.P. said:
I have a Garry Fong, it seems to do what it says on the tiny somewhat expensive for what it is but it works and supposedly works better than most of the cheap knockoffs.

Ok sounds good, its definitely a top candidate and I guess you would say if you were unhappy with the results!

Raymond Lin said:
I have a knock off of that, it works.

But I find nothing beats bouncing off the ceiling (providing the room size and wall colour is suitable)

Sadly in many clubs with dark walls and varying ceiling heights that's not a reliable solution imo, would prefer something that fires the light in the right directions to compensate.