a couple of months ago i ordered a bunch of ripstop nylon online. i found a seamstress here in eugene that knew what she was doing, and i had her stitch it up into a 7' by 5' panel, with pvc pipes as a frame. now i basically have a super large panel i can put between a light source and my subject, and bounce super soft light at them.
the best thing about this setup, in my opinion, is that if youre bouncing light through the panel, there's still a lot of hard light going past the edge of the panel. so you have this raw undiluted light that you can use to light a background, or bounce back with a mirror or reflector or just let wash around the room and provide a bit of ambiance.
i'm not doing any of those things here. in this picture i'm using my diffusion panel as a super large uplight fill. i've got two sb-28s pounding light up from beneath it, almost enough to compete with my ab-800 powering down from above with a hard-ish beauty dish.
so yeah, loving the diffusion panel. so many uses. it's like the world's largest softbox, without the sides. you can't go wrong with it.
