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If you don’t know what it is, it is generally called a lighting modifier in photography. It is often called though as a Flash Diffuser.
The Gary Fong Lightsphere 2 is the newest version of Gary Fong’s Lightsphere series. It comes either in Clear and Cloud versions. The clear one for slight softness of light and the Cloud one which I recommend adds moderate softness to your flash light, making photos appear like it was taken using natural lighting not the harsh one a regular flash produces. It has a top attachment if you want to use those, it is actually a lid to close the dome to be able to point the Lightsphere directly on your subject . Imagine it looking like a Tupperware attached to your Flash. Most version fits the Nikon and Canon Flashes, so to make it fit a third-party flash like the Nissin Di622 reviewed before, slight modification and cutting required to fit.
When you buy one, it comes with the Cloud White dome lid, but other lids can be bought separately like the Amber Lid and the Reflective Silver Lid. The Generic version of the Gary Fong Lightsphere2 if you want to save some cash is called a Lambency Flash Diffuser. Some are named even crazier, but the best replicas are the Lambency ones.
Gary Fong Lightsphere 2 Clear
Gary Fong Lightsphere 2 Cloud
One downside when attaching it to a Nissin Di622 is that the weight added to the flash head makes it bow down to 90 degrees, so you either just point it up instead or rest it at 90 degrees, anywhere in between will drop down the head, unless you put in some fitter to the head to lock it tight.On Nikon and Canon Flash systems, it works pretty well as it is designed for those, the locking mechanism of those flash units are better. However, there is a Universal Lightsphere now available for all types of external Flashes.
The Gary Fong Lightsphere2 is really good to use on portrait photography, you need to practice a lot thought to get a hang of the proper settings to use when using an external flash and the Lightsphere 2. First thing I learned is to make sure you set a custom White Balance when bouncing the flash using the Lightshpere to achieve optimum results.
Gary Fong Lightsphere 2 Universal
Here are a couple of my observations:
- When there is insufficient light, the best distance would be around 6ft. from the subject bounced upward with the Lid at f11 and iso400 1/125. Flash power set at TTL. Bouncing at low light, it is best to set your White Balance to Tungsten.
- Pointing the Flash with the lid, you just need minor adjustments. For good all around flash strength, set at TTL and add +1 to the flash assist power.
I tried it on my SB-600 and it works like a charm, on the Nissin Di622 after slight modification, it works even better, I think it is because of the flash rating of the Nissin Di622 being higher than SB 600. Sample shots Below.
Regular Flash Left with Lightsphere 2 on the Right
Using the Amber Dome
If you have other observations on the Gary Fong Lighstphere 2, please suggest it by commenting and I will gladly test it and add the notes if confirmed.
Do you need to know more? Comment below and I’ll try to answer all your questions.
You can actually make a DIY (Do It Yourself) version of the Lightsphere.
Get one, I highly recommend it, tell Mr. Fong you read it here.
Gamers are Astronauts Too
Whoa! Remember those Sci-fi films about space where in astronauts eat foods as a pill or energy bars with specific flavors like fried chicken, lasagna, pizza and cheese burger? Yeah our current Astronauts, Cosmonaut or what ever other countries call their Spacemen have some kind of energy-bar rations. Guess What? So does our current gaming freaks!
They aren’t lazy enough and addicted enough for gaming that a no-spill, no breadcrumbs food was developer for them, introducing Gamer Grub.
Eat you Lazy Gamer!
Gamer Grub is said to be and I quote the “performance snack formulated especially for gamers.” It is currently available if flavors like Action Pizza, Racing Wasabi, Strategy Chocolate and Sports PB&J. Fortified with vitamins and minerals, it will make your mouse-clicking faster, your keyboard crunching quicker and your concentration steeper, which you can also get from good exercise and a healthy diet however. They are also specially engineered to be crumb and grease free to protect your precious desk area especially your keyboard from the occasional dirt you throw in there. Now go get some and tell us how it tastes like.
GTA4: Causes Real Death
Grand Theft Auto 4
A Thai Student Robbed and Murdered an old taxi Driver just to try if it was easy to do the same thing in real life what he was always doing in Grand Theft Auto. Polwat Chino, 18 (2nd from Right on photo below), an addicted player of GTA stabbed the 54-year-old driver ten times. He said he didn’t mean to do it but the driver fought back. On Police interview, they observed that the suspect has no mental problems but pointed out he did it because of the game and confessed to the crime.
He will be facing death by lethal injection if found guilty of the crime. Currently, all Thai distributors of the game has pulled out GTA4 off the shelves.
Suspect re-enacts the crime he copied from Grand Theft Auto
More of the article at dailymail.co.uk
World of Warcraft Moneygram
Why the Title? I logged out today from my new RocketMail Account, (Yes, Yahoo gives you the option to call your new e-mail RocketMail, and not the boring myemail@yahoo.com, myemail@rocketmail.com sounds more manly… lol!). Anyways, when you logout you are brought to the Yahoo Main page, and I especially liked Yahoo AJAX style feature box and saw an excerpt from the Entertainment section regarding WarCraft, which was my favorite game since the college years, and still is, but had to stop playing it since it consumes 100% of my time… all the time.
Well they will have a new Expansion out for the WOW (World of Warcraft) Franchise and it’s called, WOW: Wrath of the Lich King . New games always employs test gamers first to test out their games before release, but in WOW’s case, since it is up for a launch later this year has launched in the last few weeks its “beta testing” stage. Only accessible to a small group of specially-selected subscribers of WOW using an online key code system. Usually the beta testers are often Read more
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