Umbrella helmet lighting
People get extremely creative when it gets to getting the lighting right. My old mate Ed just tipped me off about one which is particularly weird. But as far as making people laugh, it works. The bonus? it means you can get some excellent lighting for impromptu portrait photography!
Basically, you take a helmet, you mount a flashgun on top, and you add a reflective brolly. It’s laughably simple, but it may just work… if you can live with the shame, that is :)
Check out the page by Juergen Specht which also shows pictures taken with the rig, and further explanations, if you should wish to build one for yourself.
(Cheers, Ed!)
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#1 - April 11th, 2006 at 08:22
Not a chance :)
#2 - April 11th, 2006 at 10:43
You big wimp.
#3 - April 11th, 2006 at 21:13
no i’m with him on this one turk theres no bloomin way i’d wear that on the streets, i’d pay a lanky child to walk beside me and wear it.
#4 - April 17th, 2006 at 22:05
If I ever, EVER hear you say ’so…fancy wearing a helmet?’ to me I will beat you with the umbrella.
Please. Please do this.
#5 - May 18th, 2006 at 04:01
I love it, I love it, I love it!
I’d never actually *USE* it, but I love it just the same.
We have some DIY small flash stuff (snoots/gobos and macro strip lights) on Strobist, but absolutely *nothing* like this.
I keep thinking about Al Franken on the old Saturday Night Live skit with the sat antenna on his head…
Helmet umbrellas. Gotta love it.
-Dave
#6 - July 9th, 2006 at 15:25
Man, I don’t care if I look like a dork, those pictures look great, and were taken with a minimum of setup.