Nice set Peter.
Mmm an lx.
No must resist.

That should get me a badge, surely.

The dish is a cheap plastic £1 mixing bowl from a £1 shop.
Inside painted white, outside black.
I have repurposed it again as I have used it in the past as a beauty dish.
It had a biscuit tin lid around where the coffee tin is now and a small slot at the back for the flash head to sit into.
I've removed the lid and cut the center of the Base out so the ring flash sits more or less right.
The coffee tin sits into the center of the flash and just some transparent foamy type stuff to further diffuse.

Hi Nigel, the flash sits just in front of the front element. I've used a cut down coffee tin to shield the lens from flare and it seems to have worked.

Cheers, Peter and John.
I was aiming for subtle with the lighting anyway.

Ring flash with homemade diffuser,
A pity there's nothing subtle about the diffuser

Even a weed gets to have its moment in the sun


IMGP1715edcrpsm by dr.shutter, on Flickr


The bluebells are just out in the bottom of my garden.


IMGP1649edcrpsm2 by dr.shutter, on Flickr


IMGP1737ed2sm by dr.shutter, on Flickr


K3ii + sigma 105mm f2.8 + single ext tube (11mm)

The result is, f2.8 is registering as f1.2.
Not surprising but I am a little disappointed.
Ah well it was fun while it lasted.

The ad itself contains nothing offensive,
I think it's the idea behind it,
It's a copy of something real that happened and I think that's what's seen to be offensive

Could be wrong of course.

Not in this case. The 2nd set of tubes have no contacts, and the lens is locked wide open even when set on aperture ring. So its just f2.8, on the 2nd set vs f1.2 on 1st set.
Shooting in manual.

A nice and varied set. Looks like an interesting spot to visit.
Like them all.