My afternoon Project

Nice. When i can be bothered i use the A3 Paper/Tripod/Kitchen foil method. Although all my flashes are for film bodies and i don't want to use film for studio stuff particularly, so i just use the bedside lamp and long exposures. Seems to work quite well apart from the occasional hot pixels, i'll see if i can come up with an example...
 
Thanks, yea there is loads of room for improvement and practise on placement/power of the flash. At the end of the day I think it's great especially for just being a passing of time project :D

Now then, gota find some more things to take pictures of!
 
I took inspiration and made one (of much lower quality) today!! Didn't have a cardboard box nor do I own a flash that I can put alongside like yours. Mine consists of an old wooden wine box filled with white paper and an attachable flash on top of the camera. I'm quite pleased with the results considering I would class myself as a large noob.

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Sorry to gatecrash by the way.
 
Nice. When I messed aroubd with this I took a shot of my nifty fiftt as well :D I really should have a play with this sort of thing again, it's good fun. Two years ago I took this, blimey time has flown!


50mm18 by jj_glos, on Flickr
 
I see my pictures haven't come up. Any help? I clicked the insert image and then put the URL in that I copied from my Flickr? Sorry
 
Jess_H said:
I see my pictures haven't come up. Any help? I clicked the insert image and then put the URL in that I copied from my Flickr? Sorry
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You need to use the Flickr share feature. Select the photo you want to display, click the Share button above it, then select Grab the html/bbcode option, select the size of pic you want to share and make sure the bbcode button is checked. Then simply copy and paste the text into here, no need to use the insert image feature :)
 
Awesome results there. Did yous do any PP on these? As you can see mine had a grey tinge to the background and both of you guys have a more white.

Love the nifty one of the best lens I have (out of 4) haha
 
Cool will have t have another play tomorrow, got a sigma 10-20 coming tomorrow so that's a good excuse to get the box out again :)
 
Why didn't i think about this, this afternoon!!

I went digging about my house for a white dining table cloth, got a few good shots off on a review i was doing but nothing as good as a box, thanks for the inspiration mate, got loads of boxes around here :D
 
I can't remember the PP, probably just played with curves though. Below is a shot before the PP (going by my Flickr anyway!):


50mm by jj_glos, on Flickr
 
has anyone got any suggestions, Exif should be embedded, no PP done,
Nikon D5000 with 35mm 1.8 Nikon SB-600 triggered off camera with Hahnel trigger, full TTL mode about 3 feet away on a tripod, and the result! flash was off to the right

Cardboard Lightbox by Seraph82, on Flickr

and with no triggers, SB-600 on the camera, same settings used

DSC_0288 by Seraph82, on Flickr
 
I wouldnt use ttl for the flash, go manual. 1st shot is over exposed, camera maybe getting confused with the white background. Manual will give you more control over the exposure. Are you diffusing the flash with anything?
 
Looks good. I went the lazy way and bought a light tent off the bay some time ago. I occasionally pull it out to use.


@ SeraphX

Try with different manual settings or perhaps try spot metering.
 
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Haha cool, well its deffo over exposed. I spent ages experimeting on flash poistions and powers to see what each movent and setting did until I was getting what I thought I wanted.

I'm a beginner really so maybe there is a better way of finding what settings to use but I was just going for it and playing around.
 
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