Photo and Pictures

It was tremendously inspiring to photograph and probably got you a lot of ideas on how to improve their photos. Long before the shooting at photo festival tipped Robert Hammar me how to get a smoother flashlight through a coffee filter. He called his invention Robertfjong referring to Gary Fong as he find his inspiration from.

There are obviously many who experiment and find good, economical solutions. You do not always buy expensive products to educate your photography.

The remedy is to use a coffee filter and diffuse light, ie a diffuser. I did as he cut the filter bottom and then it was just to put it on the built-in flash to get a much more even light. It works quite well and is a very economical option. I thought then that this ought work out even if you have a compact camera.

The picture below is the one
with paper

It proved to be a little harder. Coffee filter was a little too thin and let through too much light when I tested with my compact camera. I took the test and instead of plain white copy paper. Double folded so let it through too much still. When I turned the paper 4 times and had it angled up so it worked great. Here it is important to keep the paper tight against the camera. My attempt is in no way, no masterpiece, but more to show how you can do yourself.

The photo below is the one
with coffeefilter

Please feel free to link to your attempt so we’ll see if you manage to get good pictures. Keep in mind that it need not be portrayed. It might as well be other motives.

You can also use the paper of the coffee filter to set your white balance, but get white paper though brown will not do. Notice how the shadows disappear and the light is more evenly spread.

To make natural light with LEDs where you are not able to photo at right level ISO. You will be able to use right amount of exposure. You will get sharp images of something you ordinary can´t shoot. You can use LEDs in different occasions. Not all is a set up in photo and you can use them in your ordinary photo. Take away your flash and start using LEDs. Remember you have to set the white balance.