{"id":10041,"date":"2012-02-08T03:10:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=10041"},"modified":"2017-08-12T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T14:01:57","slug":"materials-for-the-black-foamie-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/materials-for-the-black-foamie-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials for the Black Foamie Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/bft\/NV1_2125-900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Materials for the Black Foamie Thing \/ Black Foamy Thing<\/h1>\n<p><div class='one_third'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/bft-black-foam\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/bft\/bft_sq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='two_third last'>\n\t\t\t\t\tAs regular readers of the Tangents blog know, I use <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/about\/black-foamie-thing\/\">the black foamie thing (BFT)<\/a> as a truly inexpensive flash modifier to flag my on-camera flash to give me lighting indoors that truly look nothing like on-camera flash.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m frequently asked where the black foam can be sourced &#8230; well, here are the Amazon affiliate links to order the <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/bft-black-foam\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>piece of foam<\/strong><\/a>. I cut the sheet into smaller pieces. The BFT is held in position by two <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/bft-black-hair-bands\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>hair bands<\/strong><\/a> (<em>Amazon<\/em>), and the BFT is usually placed on the <strong>under-side<\/strong> of the flash-head.<br clear=\"all\" \/><br clear=\"all\" \/>The linked articles will give clearer instruction, especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/video-using-the-black-foamie-thing\/\">video clip on using the black foamie thing<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='clear'><\/div><\/p>\n<p>More\u00a0links to <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/about\/black-foamie-thing\/\">articles relating to the black foamie thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials for the Black Foamie Thing \/ Black Foamy Thing More\u00a0links to articles relating to the black foamie thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[890,324,881],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bounce-flash-photography","8":"tag-black-foamie-thing","9":"tag-black-foamy-thing","10":"tag-bounce-flash-photography","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35761,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions\/35761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}