Giveaway and Review with Light Scoop

I am in all honesty in love with this product!  If you have a camera with a pop-up flash (all dslr cameras) I would consider it a necessity.  (And we don't take the n word lightly in our house)

Here's how it works: It redirects your camera's flash so that it bounces off the ceiling before landing on your subject. 

Result: Gorgeous, natural lighting!



If you pay much attention to your photos will have noticed a long time ago how unflattering flash is!  I HATE flash.  Before trying out my Light Scoop I avoided flash at all costs!  I took my photos outside whenever I could.  When I took them inside I cranked up my iso settings (gives you lower quality pictures, but allows you to take photos with less light) and still ended up with blurry pictures most the time.  (I mean, come on, do one year olds ever hold still for a photo opt?)

Non-Light Scoop Examples

How cute would this photo have been if it. . . 1) wasn't blurry, 2) didn't have unsightly shadows, and 3) had nicer lighting?  But alas, a kodak moment gone :(

I even have a $200+ external flash unit!  Here's why I never use it: It's big and bulky and annoying to get out.  It does have more flattering lighting than the built in flash, but it still has that flash coloring which I just don't like as much as natural lighting.  And lastly, it sucks up batteries like you wouldn't believe!!!  The funny thing is, according to my manual you can adjust the external flash unit to bounce off the ceiling like Light Scoop does, BUT I've never been able to get it to work.  I guess I can't find the right angle or something.

Here's one taken with my expensive external flash.  Overexposed.  Red eye.  Shadows.  Not nice, rich colors like you get with natural lighting or Light Scoop.

I'll be the first to admit, I'm just not good at taking candids.  Posed portraits with professional lights, I can do, but candids with terrible lighting (most houses) are so frustrating! 

This is why I knew I had to have a Light Scoop the second I saw it.  And I have not been disappointed.  When I look at the photos taken with it, I cannot tell flash was used.  It's light and snaps right on your camera, super easy!  It does all the work for you, angling it perfectly whether you're taking a vertical or horizontal picture.  Finally I can get good pictures of my little guy at any hour of the day, even when he's squirming around.  Oh, the joy that nice, rich colors in a photo brings me!

Light Scoop is also amazing for pictures of your crafts or foods.  If you sell the things you  make, or even just blog about them, you want them to look their best.  Here are some comparisons.  They are more subtle because crafts don't move around :) but they are still obvious when you compare!

Look at those rich colors in the Light Scoop one.  Doesn't it just make you smile?!  In summary, I love Light Scoop because. . .
1) It's light and relatively small (easy to keep in your camera case) 
2) It couldn't possibly be any easier to use.  Seriously folks, snap it on, take a picture, that's it. 
3) It's very affordable!  ($30!)

Note: Since the flash bounces off the ceiling you can't use Light Scoop outside.  Of course in they day you don't need flash outside, so you'll only be out of luck if you are taking pictures outside after the sun sets (rare).  In which case you'll just have to resort to using your flash alone.

Anyways, on to the good part.  You want to win one right?

Here's how to enter:

mandatory
1) Visit the Light Scoop website and check it out.  Then tell me why you need one. {1 entry}

optional (do as many or as few as you would like)
2) Like Light Scoop on facebook and leave them a comment telling them why you would like to win one. {1 entry}
3) Follow me through google AND like me on facebook (if you use feed burner more than facebook you can subscribe that way instead) {1 entry}
4) Blog about this giveaway {3 entries, be sure to leave 3 comments}
5) Subscribe to Women Who Do It All via email. {1 entry}

This giveaway will run for one week.  The winner will be announced shortly after.  I will notify the winner if he or she misses the post and therefore doesn't email me within a day or two.