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(Msg. 31) Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:06 pm
Post subject: Re: reflectors vs diffusers which are better for portraits? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"Hunt" <noone DeleteThis @hunt.com> wrote in message
news:coj67802otk@news4.newsguy.com...
 > In article <coito5$1dsi$1@news.nextra.cz>, rado DeleteThis @alert.sk says...
  > >
  > >When there are a lot of specialist for this area
  > >I would like to use your know-how.
  > >
  > >Is it possible to use one or several layers of the bubble-foil
  > >[for protecting fragile goods] as cheap diffuser?
  > >[I know that some heating protection is necessary].
  > >
  > >Or forget it anyway?
  > >
  > >Many thanks.
  > >--
  > >Rado1
 >
 > Fist thought is that you might get some very interesting lenticular
 > highlights! You might want to either visit a cine supply store for
Rosco-lux,
 > or similar, or a drafting supply shop for Herculine, or another frosted
 > drafting medium. Now, the sheet foam packing might work fine, but you'll
lose
 > a lot of F's, as that stuff is thick.
 >
 > Hunt
 >

I've tried that packing stuff, and it is quite good, but as you say, absorbs
a lot of light. Not bad outdoors sometimes, where you might actually want
to absorb light as well as diffuse it on occasion: the sunlit flower against
a shadowed background type situation.


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