I managed to get my grubby hands on a sampler book of theatrical light filters. Coincidentally, the filter samples are excactly the same size as the front of my flashes! Of course since they're *exactly* the same size, holding them in front of the flash is an issue. Also, the book came with so MANY awesome colours that I didn't want to have to spend hours glueing tabs onto the many filters. So I had to come up with a solution.
Nomi nicked a couple of sheets of acetate (clear photocopy plastic/paper) from work, and after taking some measurements I made a couple of pouches. I used electrical tape to join the two together at one end, and mask the acetate to the size of the filter samples. The other end I masked with tape but left the end open. I used some more of the velcro spots to attach the pouches to the camera and to close the flap. So now to use a filter, with the pouch on the flash, I open up the pouch, put in the filter, then pull the pouch firmly closed. This holds the filter neatly in place! I also stuck a couple of velcro dots on the end of my snoot, so I can even use the filters on a snooted flash!
I'm looking forward to giving these some field trials :)
Nomi nicked a couple of sheets of acetate (clear photocopy plastic/paper) from work, and after taking some measurements I made a couple of pouches. I used electrical tape to join the two together at one end, and mask the acetate to the size of the filter samples. The other end I masked with tape but left the end open. I used some more of the velcro spots to attach the pouches to the camera and to close the flap. So now to use a filter, with the pouch on the flash, I open up the pouch, put in the filter, then pull the pouch firmly closed. This holds the filter neatly in place! I also stuck a couple of velcro dots on the end of my snoot, so I can even use the filters on a snooted flash!
I'm looking forward to giving these some field trials :)
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