Rebekah wrote: > Mike, I've seen those before, but I was wondering something a little > different. If you've ever looked closely at a light used in a stage > performance of some kind, they tend to have something in front of the > light, which is a light filter made of polyester. They look like big > squares of colored plastic wrap. Here's a picture: > > http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/?id=1405145&refnum=401313 > > Although there is an enormous variety of colors there are also a bunch > of things know as "frosts" and "silks" and are a wide range of > different sorts of diffusers. Is there anything in the photography > world like this? Because I have sample books from various companies > that sell this stuff, and I've been taping it to my flash and > experimenting. Here's a page that shows the colors they offer but > unfortunately you can't see what the diffusers look like: > > http://www.rosco.com/us/filters/roscolux.asp#colors > > They do have the spectral information which is interesting to > consider. Here's a picture of a swatchbook, the diffusers are the > white ones and tend to look like dryer sheets. > > http://www.rosco.com/us/promotions/roscolux.asp > > So, to summarize my meandering typing, are there interchangable > filters for flashes that offer a wide variety in diffusers and/or > colors? > > rg2
I've only seen that in the offerings for some odd models, usually as a "selling point" to differentiate them from all the other clones, and I certainly wouldn't say I've ever seen a wide variety offered. Usually just a diffuser and a few (usually scarily bright) colours. > > On 8/27/07, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Rebekah wrote: >> >> >>>Not that I know a lot, but I vote shoot your flash off the ceiling, if >>>you can. Or cover it with thin fabric, like fine linen (maybe rip a >>>bit of bridal gown?) If you've ever seen a sample book from a gel >>>company for theatrical lighting you might have noticed that the >>>swatches are almost the perfect size to cover most flashes, and you >>>can experiment with the various frost filters. There's something to be >>>said for changing the quality of light before it hits your lens - it's >>>almost like setting up those fancy flash umbrellas with only a flash >>>that fits in your pocket. I don't know, do they have things like this >>>for flashes and I'm just being silly? >> >>http://www.stofen.com/Info/index.htm >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
