Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/200 sec @ f/2.0, ISO 400, 50 mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)  Thanks to Chinese food delivery on Sunday night, I now have a new light modifier.  Some time a while back I read about using a Tupperware-like soup container on top of a strobe as a DIY-StoFen on the Strobist blog.  A StoFen is used to send out light from your strobe in all directions, much like a normal light bulb would.

My first attempt at making my own StoFen from such a container was a huge FAIL.  I decided that I knew exactly what I was doing and that I did not need to refresh my memory on how to cut the container so that it would fit over my flash.  Ultimately, I wound up cutting the wrong side.  Believe me, when you cut the bottom of one of these containers in an X pattern, it will not fit over your strobe.

It was only this past Sunday that my fiancée and I got around to ordering some more Chinese food.  I made sure a container of soup was in our order.  This time was certain to cut the correct side of the soup container, the lid side.  Low and behold, it fit perfectly over both of my strobes, the 430EX II and the 580EX II.

Today’s picture was captured using the DIY-StoFen’ed 580EX II.  The ambient light in the room was very low, mostly created by my fiancée watching TV.  I shot with the flash on the camera, usually a big no-no for me, and the StoFen’ed head pointed up towards the white ceiling.