I finished implementing Dalantech's diffuser design pretty much to the T last nite and went by the gardens this morning to see how it works. These were all shot before sunrise in pretty fair ambient light.
Nikon D300(F11, 1/250, ISO200), Nikkor 105mm lens w/52.5mm tube, Nikon R1C1 twin flash with Puffer diffusers mounted on Stofen frames with a small piece of 1/8 white diffusion material bowed out just in front of the flash head. Lumiquest gold matte-finished material covering the open spaces.
<Rant on>I'm more than a little displeased with Nikon's design on the R1C1 mounting 'system'. The SB-R200 lite does not use a standard shoe mount. It will only fit their mounting ring. I'm in the process of trying to come up with SOMETHING that will allow me to change the height of one or the other lites and so far, no joy. Hope springs eternal though.</Rant off>
n0b0 - I don't necessarily disagree with ya, I do like the light from the big Lumiquest box. The twinlite has its' advantages as well. EXCEPT for the stupidly expensive CR123 batteries Nikon chose to use.
Brian - I have those; they're part of the R1C1 kit. Just wish they were a little bigger and utilized the light a little better. In the end, though, it's the photographer and not the gear. There are people who make much better shots than me with a P&S.
I think the light looks a lot more diffused that the last diffuser you were using for that twin light Kenny. What I look for is texture, and not in the specular highlights but in all of the areas that are in focus. What caught my eye was the ladybug's shell (it doesn't look smooth -lots of texture there), the wings of the seed bug, and the "skin" of the Lynx spider. Lots of texture detail there that you weren't picking up before
- lovely series.
