Showing posts with label Grid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grid. Show all posts

DIY Grid/Snoot - Template PDF Files

Passionate Photographer Jon MacKinnon, like me, he's an aficionado for the DIY stuff.

He contact me a couple of weeks ago saying the he recently started a Discussion group at Flickr concerning my Lighting Mod posts DIY: 580EX Color Gels Printing Diagram and DIY: Black Straws Snoot Grid (Part 1) (do you still remember them?) and the discussions are all about diagrams for different flash models and you can even add your own model if it isn't already there.

Also visit Jon's Flickr stream for some great DIY stuff.

Here is a list of the strobes Templates available for download at the bottom of this post.

CANON
- 580EX & 580EXII 

(Although the 580EXII is not on the files you can use the 580EX Template to create it as they are very similar).

NIKON
- SB-25 and SB-26
- SB-28
- SB-600
- SB-800

SIGMA
- EF-500

VIVITAR
- 283

I think this would be a lot helpful if you are into building one of these babies.

Thanks Jon for this wonderful idea and keep up the good work.

You can download the complete package at this MediaFire link here.


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Light Painting

Light Painting_01Hey I was sleepless tonight so I decided to put my gear up and make a long time assignment a real thing.

I always wanted to try the Light Painting but never had any time to do it, there is always something that comes up, and once again this stays behind.

After seeing a lot of new videos and it's setup on the Strobist, about this issue, I decided to try my Homemade one.

This is a simple way to make that you really wanna try it out and maybe later on make some more complicated ones like seen here.

What I've used:

- Canon Flash 580Ex
- Black Straws Snoot (Get one yourself Part1 and Part2)
- Book Light Science and Magic UK (or other of your choice)
- MagLite flashlight
- Camera and Lens
- Monopod and Tripod for the Flash
- Gadget Infinity Triggers (Flash and Camera)
- Remote camera release button

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First of all the setup shot.

Canon 580Ex with Black Straws Snoot to the left pointing a little down to the book (105mm,1/128). Camera ISO 100, Tv 200, Av 22, sorry if the book came out burned but the room was too dark to be illuminated besides my wife was a sleep.

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A closer look at the Black Straws Snoot Grid pointing at the book to get the light effect on the book and in the table.

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I started to paint with the flash light around the book and in front of it also, do not point the light directly into the lens or you could blow a couple of shots :)

The flames are made with a small MagLite flashlight covered with my thumb and index fingers that gave it a reddish tone, then moving along the book to create the effect.

Nothing special just use your head and create some amazing stuff with this simple setup.

Enjoy,

Rui

DIY: Black Straws Snoot Grid (Part 1)

Hi again and welcome,

here is a new idea you can start doing by yourself.


When I was on one of my trips, this time to London, for a great Strobist Seminar we went into a Mexican restaurant and as by David advice on getting all the Black Straws you could pick I decided to try my luck.

I ask the waitress if I could get some black straws and she just said grab the one's you like... so as you can imagine I took 2 hands full of them !!!! :)

Later on I decided that was time to put together the so talked snoot grid but I could not imagine how to assemble it, since I have never did it before. I then realized that a lot of people also did not bother to assemble it, maybe because of lacking how or because they simply did not know what was it all about.


In this, 2 parts simple, "Do It Yourself" I will show you first how to assemble the "THING" and then, on the second part, I show some examples on what you could accomplish with them just in terms of lighting conditions.



These are designed for the flashes  have at the moment, the Nikon SB-26 and the Canon 580EX but you can always design to fit your own.


So let's start...


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Working table with all the gear needed to assemble the Black Straws Snoot Grid.

- Black duct tape
- Cereal Box (Any type or any kind)
- Scissors
- Glue
- Hand full of Black Straws (0,5 cm diameter)
- Ruler
- Portable flash to try it out later
- Pen

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This is the design on the cereal card box for the 2cm Black Straws Snoot Grid. There is an error on the calculation between the picture and the real thing since I have some Velcro at the flashes end and it gives 0,2cm more to each side (If you have the Velcro at the end of your flash use the measures on the picture instead), sorry but I only noticed it now here goes correct the measures:

1 cm, 4,5 cm, 7cm, 4,5cm, 7cm and length 5 cm

This will give 2cm for the straw and the other 3 to fit in the flash and will
fit on SB26 and 580EX


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This is the design on the cereal card box for the 5cm Black Straws Snoot Grid.
This fits on SB26 and 580EX:

7cm, 4,5cm, 7cm, 4,5cm, 1cm and
length 8cm

This will give 5cm for the straw and the other 3 to fit in the flash.
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Cut with scissors the card box as showed.
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After cutting the card box use the ruler to help you bend the card box on the marks.
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After bending all the parts here is how it should become.
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After bending all the parts here is how it should become. Do not glue it yet!! On my left hand you can see the 1cm part that will be for assembling the structure together.
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Cut the straws with scissors and pay attention that they tend to pop out after each cut ;). Illustration for the 2cm cut for the 5cm is the same only the straw pieces would come out bigger.
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Now it's time to glue them to the card box. Start to glue them to the longest part of the card box this way will be easier to glue everything later on.
Start to align them at the front of the card box... don't mind if the back part (the one that stays inside the card box) is not precisely align it will work anyway. What you have to keep in mind is to align the front.
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Here you can see some of the straws on the back are not aligned but they are glued :)
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First row now glued this is what it will look like after all of them are glued. Carry on gluing...

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A couple of rows later...

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A couple of rows later...
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Try it out before you close it... this way you can ad or remove straws so it can stay aligned.
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The inside after all the gluing has finished.
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Done. This is how it look after it's finished.
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Now tape it to look more professional and to cover those unpaid ads :)
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Here are the 5cm (L) and the 2cm (R) with that black tape professional look :), just look through them, you can even see what will be coming out of this...

Hope you like this photo tutorial and make use of this tools since they are very good and if you loose one you can always make another ;)

Don't miss part 2 of this series since it will bring you some examples how you can use your new Black Straws Snoot Grids.

Until next time... go shoot!!!

DIY: Black Straws Snoot Grid (Part 2)


And also check a colored version I just came up with.