How to make a window diffuser?

[GreenGuy33]

Has anyone come up with a way to diffuse home window lighting? I would like to get the incoming light softer.

 

Thanks!

[frankinfuji]

I just use a net curtain.

[milandro]

If you really want to do something simple and quick to mount and dismount, quickly and at a very low cost get some polystyrene about 3 cm thick (they come in different sizes ).

 

Pin it together with bamboo skewers and put a sheet of tracing paper of the appropriate size in front of it.

 

This is how I learned (and made myself) to make portable window light banks when I was a stage (still) photographer for the cinema. I have taught many students to do these things when I taught studio photography.

 

True these days these things ( soft boxes made in China with stand and lamps can cost as little as €150 a set of 3 ) cost very little compared to what they used to in my day.​​

Edited June 23, 2017 by milandro