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I just had an awesome photo session here tonight. I have made a couple of different flash diffusers and am very pleased with the results.

First, I tried the CCRRFDv2 and really like the results for portraits, it totally removed any shadows and left a nice warm uniform glow instead of the harsh flash with lots of shadows behind the people in the photo.

Then I found this extender and tried it out. Here are some of his amazing photos using it and at the bottom of the page is more pictures of the extender.

So I went ahead and made my own diffuser from a toothpaste box and lined it with aluminum foil (its looks won’t win me any awards) but I think the photos speak for themselves.

Click on the link to see the results. All of the photos are all the originals composition, (the only Post Processing performed was a resize to 640×480 and adding my watermark.)

Edit: 28 Jul 07, I took some more images tonight and added 4 more to the gallery.

Be sure to periodically check out the My Photos page as I will update that with new sessions but not necessarily write an entry on this page to announce it!

I have recently purchased a new camera and have just discovered the HDR technology.

Click on the following image to go to my first HDR images page.

I posted a couple of photos I took while trying out the new camera. Since I spent so much time customizing the gallery for my last camera, some of the EXIF values aren’t displaying properly underneath the photos so I will have to look at the code more when I get a chance. Ok, as it turns out, it was actually Adobe PhotoShop Elements 5 that was stripping most of the EXIF data and overwritting it with its own info. I was just glad it wasn’t the changes I had made to EXIF parser for the new camera as all of the ISO information is given new values for this series of camera in the MakerNotes field of the EXIF that Canon so likes to use. After testing different tools late last night, I have decided to do my cropping and any changes required with the very nice (and free) Picasa from Google and I am still using XNView for my resizing/watermarking as it retains the EXIF info and is capable of batch processing.

Enjoy!
My Photos

Well, I got a new toy today. I finally upgraded my Canon PowerShot A70 that I purchased back in 2003 with the newly released Canon PowerShot S5 IS.

Features at a glance:

• 12x optical zoom lens with Ultrasonic Motor (USM) and UD lens
• Optical Image Stabilizer
• 8.0 Megapixel CCD
• DIGIC III with advanced Noise Reduction technology and Face Detection
• Red-Eye Correction in playback
• 2.5” high-resolution vari-angle LCD
• Long-play VGA movies with stereo sound and Photo in Movie
• 22 shooting modes including full manual control and 0cm Super Macro
• High ISO 1600 and Auto ISO Shift
• Compatible with Wide/Tele/Close-up converter lenses
• Hot shoe for external Canon EX Speedlite flashes

Hopefully it will inspire me to get back out there and take some more pictures!