"Michael Sasser, 22, of Galveston, Texas poses for a portrait Thursday, April 17, 2008 in Aurora, Colo."
Mike and I spent the evening working on a DIY photo project that we built from scratch using materials found at the local Orange store. For about $18 a piece we each made our own beauty dish that works fantastic and fits our speedlights. As college students we are always looking to get the same results as the big guys but on the cheap. Here is essentially the same thing that costs 13 times more than ours. That's a steal if you ask me. The best part is that we learned something by building it ourselves. I'm a completely self taught photographer and little projects like these only further develop my technical knowledge base that is always important in photography.
The paint dried fast enough for us to play with them and I was able to make the image of Mike above. If you look closely in the eyes you can see the round "catch lights." This is actually the beauty dishes being reflected in the blacks of his eyes and produce an unusual effect. The results are great and we will be eager to play with them some more this weekend.
-JCE
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