Hey Silk I was doing this just a few days ago! I was having a real Blue Peter moment and decided to have a go at making my own flash diffusers. It was inspired by the Better Bounce Card and to make it I got my self off to
Hobbycraft in search of my materials. I was thinking of using thick paper but in the end I opted for a product called Fab Foam which is about 2mm thick and comes in A4 and A3 sheets, the A4 being 49p.
Once at home it was a reasonably simple matter to cut it to shape and fix to the flash head with a strip of velcro.
Here it is attached to my SB-600, when in use you can have it either facing forward or backwards, by using it backwards you will get a spread of light plus retain a catchlight.
My unwilling subject, this is just a quick grab shot to see if my device worked and you can see how it has produced an almost shadowless image:
A lot cheaper and easier to fit in the bag than the GF Lightsphere.
I then decided to make a Mark II version using a black strip running up the middle to feather the lighting effect. I also borrowed one of the kids soft toy to take a few pics. Don't you just love a few days off!
The Mark II version:
Both of the following are as shot out of the camera and the SB-800 set to +0.3 EV, with only an sRGB conversion and resized.
This first one was using the plain white diffuser as mentioned above:
The second was taken using the Mark II:
I'm not sure if you can see it on here but on the originals the Mark II version has a bit more depth and is not so flat, although the first is certainly fine.
This final shot was using the Mark II on the on-board SB-800 and the Mark I on an SB-600 placed to right of camera and set at -0.3 EV.
