Diffusing light is the key to warm, soft shots. If you do a lot of portrait photography then you know how valuable a softbox can be, but the cost can sometimes be prohibitive. You can add a white card to your flash to diffuse light, buy a diffusing cap for your flash or you can buy a Komplement collapsable fabric box from Ikea for a few bucks and build yourself one kick ass softbox.
Crafty hacker Thomas from Denmark picked up one of these fabric boxes (they come in various sizes, he used the 20cm x 20cm one), cut a hole in the side for his flash and using a flash cord had himself a cheap softbox.
He added some support to the cut-outs to hold his flash in place and as you can see from the pictures it collapses down nicely for stoarge.
This DIY camera softbox and the DIY FlashRing are a perfect addition to your photography toolkit.
DIY: Camera Flash Softbox originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2011/01/10.
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