I’ve been back on my homemade trail mix kick of late, and picked up a container of Sunsweet Plum Amazins* to add to the mix this week.
The chopped-prune raisin-type things are tasty enough, and will add a nice bit of sweetness (plus some fiber and nutrients) to the trail mix, but what I was more interested in the packaging, especially once I peeled off the shrink-wrapped plastic label to reveal this nice, white light-modifier-to-be…
![1-hummm The Light Pipe](https://i0.wp.com/www.jamescockroft.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1-hummm.jpg?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1)
The container is a bit big for the SB700, so I did some tracing…
and cutting…
and trimming… and trimming… and trimming… until the lid just barely scrunched around the flash.
Fine so far, but the green lid gives a bit of a green cast to the bottom.
So I applied some black duct tape, which made the fit a bit more snug.
The light spills out everywhere, which is great for some applications, but maybe not so great for others, and so I set up a roasting-pan reflector just to see what would happen.
![10-Pooh with Beauty Bounce The Light Pipe](https://i0.wp.com/www.jamescockroft.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/10-Pooh-with-Beauty-Bounce.jpg?resize=397%2C600&ssl=1)
![11-Pooh without Beauty Bounce The Light Pipe](https://i0.wp.com/www.jamescockroft.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/11-Pooh-without-Beauty-Bounce.jpg?resize=397%2C600&ssl=1)
The constructing shots were made with an iPhone4 and the rest were made with the D7000 & Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G, ISO100, 1/250th, f/8, with the SB700 at 1/4 power. These last two were ISO100, 1/200th, f/8:
![12-Me With Beauty Bounce The Light Pipe](https://i0.wp.com/www.jamescockroft.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/12-Me-With-Beauty-Bounce.jpg?resize=397%2C600&ssl=1)
![13-Me Without Beauty Bounce The Light Pipe](https://i0.wp.com/www.jamescockroft.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/13-Me-Without-Beauty-Bounce.jpg?resize=397%2C600&ssl=1)
If you have any questions or ideas for improvement, please let me know!