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cardiff_gareth
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 Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:42 pm Post subject: DIY Beauty Dish |
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cardiff_gareth wrote:
It needs more doing to it and I don't think its finished yet but here's what I have done so far for starters
total cost so far = £0 nothing 
So in the kitchen I found a clear plastic dish that I think came from a Tesco Paella ready meal!
I was going to use the white dish next to it for the cone but its was melamine and too hard to Stanley knife 
Next I marked up where the flash gun was going to go:
And cut it out and tried the flash in it
I was wondering what to use for the cone and kept looking around the house but all I could find was:
So off came the lid, cleaned it first cut the outter part off and made some hole in it. Then off to the garage I went! First I sprayed the rear black as I think it looked better and I wanted to deflect as much light forward as possible. Then when dries I applied 2 coats of clear lacquer. One that was dried I painted the inside and also my makeshift cone with some silver Hammerite. Once that was dry I then cable tied then together.
Here are some results, taken about 30 mins ago so its fairly dark here.
All shot as RAW and apart from resizing there have been no PP on them so this is what came out of the camera 
I'll be interested in what its like in daylight conditions 
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| Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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lulalake wrote:
Very nice! |
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indianadinos wrote:
Hi, thanks for sharing ...
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Farside wrote:
Very effective, too.
Mealworms... mmmm....
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my_photography wrote:
So that is the worm inside his eyes?
Nice shot and thanks for sharing. Looks like this will be my next project.
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cardiff_gareth
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:07 am Post subject: |
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cardiff_gareth wrote:
Thanks all, I'd like to point out that the mealworms were for the local wildlife ....... honest
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symphonic wrote:
Thanks for sharing, awesome result! 
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cooltouch wrote:
Wow nice!
Now's my chance. We're bound to have something similar stashed away in one of our kitchen cabinets. The wifey is at the store and won't miss a couple pieces of her reusable/disposable stash. I hope.
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cardiff_gareth wrote:
| cooltouch wrote: |
Wow nice!
Now's my chance. We're bound to have something similar stashed away in one of our kitchen cabinets. The wifey is at the store and won't miss a couple pieces of her reusable/disposable stash. I hope. |
I know the feling, I now examine everything for any photographic use
I have updated the beauty dish to a Mk3 finished version
Materials bought.
Not all were used so they'll be used later on for next project! Note the yellow bowl. The lid is missing as I had started doing something with it !
Using one of the plastic bowls (left of top pic!) I cut the bottom off to make a shallow dish. The using the lid of the yellow bowl I cut the push fit ends off to make a circle with a rim. These were then glued together and holes made for the cable ties. Its important to do the holes first as otherwise the lid flexs and they come apart 
With the dome now made and drying I turned my attention to the actual dish part. First I took off the silver flat part and got one of the Bacofoil foil dishes. I then cut strips into this so when put in the dish it wouldn't bend and could be a perfect fit:
Going in!
and finally in, glued down and the excess trimmed off the edges:
I'm actually impressed how well it looks !
This was left to dry also.
When both parts were dry I then cable ties them together
I tried this set up out but the light flashes through the white dome and acted as a diffuser rather than a beauty light.
Taking the old silver flat part I drew around it and cut out a slightly larger circle than the one marked out, then this was glues down and allowed to dry.
END RESULT !!
And here is the result from the finished article
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