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A few shots with the D810 and the Sigma 105mm macro on my afternoon walk. My shaky hands problems is proving a bit of a challenge with close-ups.

The body is the Pringles tube shown in post #13 and painted with some old blackboard paint, the 'head' is the circa 2005 commercial version, top right, in post #29 and the whole thing is secured to the flash with a strip of Velcro type tape.

Until I'm satisfied that I can cope with my shaky hands problem, I have finalised this version of my Q&D flash diffuser. I have also cut out a couple of pieces of lightweight white plastic to 1) attach under the lens with double-sided 'tacky tape' to act as a bottom fill-in reflector and 2) a...

A rummage through my junk box revealed these commercial diffusers, none of which were particularly good in my opinion. In my naivety I bought the bottom one, the top two were gifted

This type was one of the first I bought for use with my C****n all those years ago and to be honest, I didn't think much of it, plus it also kept popping of the flash.

Thanks for the tip @hark. I did a search and found some of his threads which are interesting, but alas, some of the links no longer work. I've got a couple of ideas in my head though and just some time to set to work on them.

No, that's Vinnie. ;)

Hmm, let me think ........ ah yes, the one in jeans. ;)

Many thanks @Clovishound, I completely missed that symbol :sleep: and I did RTFM. I have been trying to address my shaky hand problem as mentioned at #13 and I am trialling a method I first learned about some 20 years ago from my inspiration at that time, which is using a thin pole as a...

Well this really sucks. :( Whilst exploring the various functions on my new Godox TT685iiN, somehow I inadvertently got it into LOCKED mode. The manual make no mention of this but I found a couple of videos on the 'net explaining that holding down the menu button for about 5 seconds will...

Congratulations to 'The Six'.

Thanks. The diffuser shown in #8 was made out of a white plastic milk bottle, alas, there's still a litre of milk left in mine at the moment otherwise I would have used that. I have 1 Black and 1 White, A3 x 0.5mm polypropylene sheets coming on Tuesday for me to play around with and hopefully...

After my last post, and impatient as I can sometimes be, I remembered that I had an old Pringles box in the garage so I retrieved it, carved it up a little, clipped on two layers of kitchen towel and this is the result, my first diy diffuser for over fifteen years. I do some tethered shooting...

Congratulations @Needa.

Thank you for your insight Clovishound. I don't think I could handle one of the large diffusers so my present thinking is for a similar, but hot shoe mounted version of the one above, possibly with a sort of 'cowl + diffuser' at the working end. I'll fire up the ancient old grey cells and see...

I'm pleased to say that the TT685 II arrived yesterday evening and what a nice bit of kit it is, now I have to sit down and RTFM. :( I've ordered some stuff to make a couple of diffusers with - arriving Monday, and plan on doing some online research into popular diffuser designs - all hints and...

Not having done any serious hand-held macros for many years I will have to search the loft for the diffusers I used but I did find this image on an old drive. As I recall, it did become my most used one at the time, however, I'm sure I can design something better this time around. ;) Note: I...

Thank you both for your replies and I can confirm that I have found and ordered a TT685 II that is within my budget and hopefully it should arrive tomorrow. It seems I will be spending my weekend learning how to use it in practice. :)