chebe on the busy hands | disquiet mind blog writes:

My office/workshop is not meant to be a photography set. The lighting isn’t suited to product beauty shots, yet photos still happen in here. Part of this is that I’m more photosensitive than your average maker and will happily work away in my dark cave.

But I want better photos, so I decided to try and improve the lighting situation without splashing out hundreds on professional gear (that won’t fit in here anyway).

Someone already made a model for my lamp; Ikea Tertial diffuser holder. You print the two rings, and sandwich circles of greaseproof paper (it’s made for ovens, it’ll be okay with the heat) between them, then it just clips around the lip on the lampshade.

I imported the models into 3D Builder, exported .stls, and then printed in PETG. I didn’t have any issues with scaling (as is mentioned in the description), it fits lovely. As this diffusion is very close to the light source it is less effective than other methods, but does still have a noticeable effect.

Check out more in the post here.