Creative Cheapness

What do you get when you put these things together?
     A really inexpensive light refractor for photography!!

Laney donated her outgrown frog umbrella - silly enough to bring a smile from the person being photographed - plus the inside, once spray painted,
would refract some light to our subjects!

50 cent umbrella from Walmart
donated to the cause of better
lighting for photos.

I sprayed the two umbrellas and let them dry in the shop.  Then I snuck one of Phil's older halogen lamps mounted on a stand out of the shop, and a couple clamps. After clamping the larger umbrella backwards onto the lamp, the light refracted back onto the posing subjects!  I'm saving the frog umbrella to be used as a portable refractor - adding a powerful flashlight shining up into it and moving it around where more light is needed.

This is one of the finished products - we'll see if it'll still fold up for easy
carrying, but even if it doesn't, we're happy.



Below are some of the results!

Molly - the dear, sweet kitten

Laney - the dear, sweet child

Georgie - the dear, slobbery best friend