DIY on-camera flash bounce / reflector

Harsh flashes suck. Not having enough light sucks. Being poor sucks. Therefor, I have created a flash bounce that goes on your camera, uses your built in flash, and costs about nothing and no time to make, and increases photography skills by about 20 points.

You need:
scissors,
cardboard,
tape like I used to keep it on the camera better, but its not necessary

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Step 1: Find cardboard

It should be white on one side. You need a rectangle about 4" by 6" at most, depending on your camera.

rclassy says: Sep 11, 2011. 7:38 PM

great/affordable idea!

mawi says: Feb 24, 2010. 1:31 AM

Great idea, very simple and it works great.

Thanks a lot

paullie says: Feb 17, 2010. 9:05 PM

Works great! Thanks dinghy.

lior.danos says: Feb 15, 2010. 4:09 AM

Very nice, i dont have a pop up flash camera, so i took a white visiting card.
i compared between: full flash, no flash and "visiting car" reflector pictures.... and the 3rd option is by far the most excellent.

Nice tip.

ryantmer says: Feb 10, 2010. 3:30 PM

Very nice! I just tried something similar today with a 4 litre milk jug. Bit of cutting, and the cloudy plastic does the rest. Not quite as portable as this though...

stone3408 says: Feb 7, 2010. 11:36 AM

Great idea! I can't believe that its this simple. I suppose that you could come up with some type of recycle plastic model as well. Maybe you could cut out of 4inch pvc pipe with a hot shoe mount? Hmmm many thoughts.

dinghy (author) says: Feb 7, 2010. 9:14 PM

This could also be done (maybe with even better results) using a half of a soda cup like you get at a fast food place. It would probably be more reflective, and already bent.