DIY Flash Bender, Light Bender

I finally got myself to complete this DIY project. It has been in my

Google task for quite some time already and today, the last day of
my December holiday, a strange force pushed me to complete this
project. Haha actually, it was after the “A Night at the Alley” shoot
that I realized that I really needed a snoot and flag to prevent my
light from spilling. So to prevent the similar bad lighting situation
from happening again, I need to make a snoot & flag soon.

Up in my head, I had the Rogue Flash Bender in mind. Itʼs very

versatile and innovative. Really like it a lot. However, it costs $75
from Cathay Photo and I think naming it as Light Bender is more
appropriate and cooler (sort of resemble the comic character, air
bender LOL).

So I spent the whole afternoon designing and making it (4hrs).

Towards the end, new idea hit me when I was completing the
project. Will share with u later. Hereʼs are the pics:

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 The design and dimension was gotten from the Rogue FlashBenders
webpage.

I used a card board as the base. Wire mesh as the backbone. Then I
stapled the backbone to the cardboard. A piece of 80g/m^2 A4
paper for the white surface. Underneath it, I pasted some reflective
tape to allow more light to bounce forward. Actually, satin would be
a better material than paper as itʼs more reflective, less likely to get
stained and change colour, more water resistance and most
importantly it creates a softer light.

Velcro is used to hold the edges together and make it into a snoot,
and also to hold the Flash Bender to the flash.

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 You can refer to this similar DIY project for alternative reference.

Here are the sample pics of the result.

Snoot:

Bounce Card:

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 I hope the photos are self explanatory. Hereʼs there new idea, I was
drinking a can of coke while making this flash bender. When my final
product is up in shape, I realized that itʼs not as bendable, it does
not stays in the shape that I want it to. Perhaps the 3 metal mesh
that was used as the backbone are not so malleable or does not has
the shape memory property.

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 The Aluminum from the coke can seems quite malleable. Itʼs a good
candidate for the backbone.

I shall use this instead in the future.

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