Building a Photography Diffusion Panel: Materials

Video Transcript

"In this clip we're going to talk about the materials needed for a diffusion panel. It's a fairly simple list. You'll need some three quarter inch PVC which can be purchased at any hardware store. It needs to be three quarter inch. You need four of the L brackets that go right on the end. They come off at a ninety degree angle. You have to make sure that they're not the screw in type, but the slip on type on both ends. You have to be real careful, you'll wind up getting ready to assemble this and you won't have exactly what you need. You'll also need some T fittings. These are kind of optional. You could do this with just a regular sleeve without this ninety degree part, but for what we're going to do we're going to use this as an optional thing. Once again these need to be the slip on fittings for the three quarter inch. No threads. If you have threads it's going to mess you up. The, a handy thing to have, not absolutely needed for this project but something that's really handy is some stretch cord. Kind of like what they use for bungee cord. This needs to be a fairly long piece. It needs to be about twenty four feet. Another thing we're going to use is elastic. We're just going to do a real simple attachment to attach the fabric to the actual square panel and we'll use the elastic for that. The actual fabric we're going to use to diffuse the light with is nylon. This is a white nylon. You can get this in a rook stop type which keeps it from tearing. This is available at any fabric store. It's not very expensive. It's usually two to three dollars per yard."