I added two large diffusers to my set-up. Now I can use it for portraits. It won't work under strong sunlight, so no chance to overpower the sun with it, but I can imagine that it can be useful for outside evening events or dim halls with not proper ceiling (either strange colored or to large rooms with far away ceiling):
On the left (from the photographer's direction) side, there is a simple soft-box, while on the other side a kind of beuty dish. Below you can see some snapshot of my family:
There is a bit of light leakage through the bent fibers in the front and it causes even some colour shift, so I will cover them soon:
You can see the middle spot is yellowish compared to the other catchlight shapes.
Overall I'm happy with the results and in my opinion it could be a good solution for photographers working outside without walls and ceilings. Wedding or event photographers could use it and it surely would attract the attention of the people.
A similar product is available on the market, the
Bounce-Wall, by California Sunbounce. It's a bounce panel on a bracket reflecting the camera flash, which imitates flashlight bounced from a wall or ceiling. A review of it you can find on strobist:
http://strobist.blogspot.de/2012/09/bounce-wall-geniusinsanity-line-goes.html
The obvious advantage of my solution is that I have two light sources with more flexibility to adjust and modify.
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