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What coffee filters do to pictures......

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If you get too much white flash in your pictures, simple take a common coffee filter piece and place on flash, a finger also works, just experiment and you will see some neat results like these.

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Great idea, Tanya. I have been using strips of cloth, cut out from an old white T- shirt, to reduce the harshness of tight flash shots.

Might have to start drinking coffee again.
 
the other material that works well, is those soft cloth like wrapper on female sanitary napkins, happen to see it lets through light, also and then adjust fingers. different colored light weight paper will give off what glow? Hunts the house for different things.
 
Diggy415 said:
the other material that works well, is those soft cloth like wrapper on female sanitary napkins
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Yer killen me, girl. LOL. My stock of sanitary napkins has run low for obvious reasons. Anyhow, they were never that sanitary in the first place

You gave me a good laugh. Now you must be punished.

J/K, of course. Female sanitary napkins are nothing to laugh about.
 
Tanya, thanks for hint. I guess I should read a photography book because I hadn't thought of covering the flash.
 
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