How to make flash

How to make flash

In work the photographer uses various methods of giving of lighting. And that turned out to have not enough good photos only external flash. The ring flash of a lens which can be made independently of plain materials can become the great assistant to the photographer.

It is required to you

  • food plastic container of rounded shape, piece of a polyvinyl pipe with a diameter of 8 cm, food aluminum foil, a felt-tip pen or a marker, an adhesive sanitary tape, scissors and a knife, paper glue

Instruction

1. Prepare a food plastic container of rounded shape. The size of a bottom should not be less than 8 cm. Prepare one more food plastic container of rounded shape, but smaller diameter and also a piece of a polyvinyl pipe with a diameter of 8 cm and long no more than 5 cm. Still you need food aluminum a foil, a felt-tip pen or a marker, an adhesive sanitary tape, scissors and a knife, paper glue.

2. Turn a bottom a big food container up and put a polyvinyl pipe on the central part of a bottom. Circle with a marker a circle from outer side of a pipe. Do the same with the second food plastic container of smaller diameter. And, it should be noted that the small food container by the size of diameter of a bottom has to coincide practically about diameter of a pipe. By means of a knife or scissors cut through the outlined circles on both containers. Be very attentive as food plastic quite dense.

3. Lean the head of flash of the camera against a side part of a big container and circle with a marker a head contour. Accurately cut out the circled contour a knife or scissors. Now your preparations need to be pasted over with a foil. A big container – only from within, a pipe - only outside, a small container - completely. Edges and openings in addition fasten to the help of a sanitary tape.

4. Collect all prepared elements. Place a pipe in the basis of a big container, insert a pipe into a small container. Try not to tear a foil. In addition grease with glue and fasten junctions of details with a sanitary tape.

5. Implant into a rectangular opening in a side part of a big container the flash head. On effect, independently ring flash of a lens made by you is comparable to made on production. For synchronization use the wireless TTL mode of external flash or a cable.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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