On most of my flashes, If I'm not bouncing it off a ceiling, I use a piece of
plastic cut from a white milk container. I use velcro on the side edges of
the flash and on the ends of the plastic. I also make the plastic longer than
seems necessary, wider than the flash, and bow it out, so it is not flat
against
the flash tube. I like to have a little of the unsoftened flash "bleed" out
from under and over the white plastic. This way, I find the flash output isn't
too diminished, but 90% ( strictly a guess ) of the flash output is still
softened. Experiment a bit.
George S.
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