How to make flash

How to make flash

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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.

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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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