How to DIY Super LED portrait soft light

Lead: There are many auxiliary lights when taking portraits, such as the American brand Westinghouse ice lamp, which looks like a lightsaber in the movie Star Wars. The price is $500, with some restrictions. This fashionable-looking lamp can actually achieve the same effect as long as you buy an LED flashlight. Here, we will teach you how to DIY ice lanterns, so that you can produce beautiful light when shooting portraits.

Prepare tools

The ice lamp looks like a household fluorescent lamp, but usually we don't use fluorescent lamp as lighting source, because fluorescent lamp is a discontinuous light source, which will make the color of the picture yellow or white. To solve this problem, LED lamps with continuous light sources can be used. The ice lamp is light and easy to carry, and it is quite flexible when shooting. Can it be used as an apple lamp, a hand-held fill light, or an eye protection lamp? Wait a minute. Just prepare the following materials, LED flashlight, PVC plastic pipe, PVC connector, and you can play with ice lanterns without spending a lot of money!

Tools:

LED flashlight, white PVC plastic pipe (about 80cm), white PVC connector, plastic tape, saw, scissors, sandpaper, tin foil paper.

manufacturing method

Step 1

First measure the length of the LED flashlight, cut off half of the PVC plastic pipe so that the flashlight can be put in, and smooth the edge with sandpaper.

Second step

Then fix the LED flashlight with plastic tape.

Third step

Cut off the PVC joint, cut off four small pieces to cover the PVC plastic pipe, and then put tin foil paper inside the PVC joint to make it reflect light.

Fourth step

After the combination is completed, this ice lamp can be used! If the inner wall of PVC pipe is too smooth, according to Pocol's suggestion, white material with texture and light transmission, such as thin white cloth or sulfuric acid paper, can turn the light into diffused light, making the light more uniform and soft.

Shooting effect

An LED flashlight costs about 100 yuan, plus a few PVC plastic pipes, so you can make your own lights without spending a lot of money.