Yes, much better. Clearly shows a difference, even if now the bottom one (direct flash) seems a bit overeposed and the top two a tiny bit underexposed. Look at the black details in the images.
Sorry for critisizing, you did not ask for it. Anyway, being a DIY man myself, I think the shadows looks much better diffused with your bottle diffuser than direct.
It definitely works.
Thanks OlyFlyer,
as I have mentioned in my
link that I had kept all parameters (settings) constant through the shoot to compare the effects. I had looked at the Histogram of the first picture,
thought it looked rather alright,
so I used that same set of settings throughout to make a comparison in the effects of different tilt/rotation, diffuser/bounce/direct,
thus explaining the over and under-exposures.
I guess even the diffused pictures are a tad underexposed, however, I will always edit the levels in CS, though for this trials, I had intentionally not adjusted the levels.
One interesting point to make is that with tilt and rotation at 0 degrees, I got this:
It seems to me that the length of light travelled inside and the slightly thicker end of the LightTube gave a strong warm cast on the overall image.
I have used AWB, so I thought I should have defined a temperature setting.
so in conclusion, I will avoid using the LightTube at tilt 0 degrees,
but instead tilt it to 45-60 degrees,
I have tried rotation (not shown), same exposure except clearly light is coming from the side and mild shadow fell to the other side.
I can also use a white bounce card to achieve if not the same but similar effects as the mbb-LightTube ver.1