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p.1 #1I've never taken such a colorful photo
I built a DIY ring flash adapter last night and did some more testing with it tonight. I'm amazed how it lit the my daughters bedroom. I'm kind of late to the game with the ring flash craze, but I really like the effect it gives.
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Dec 10, 2009 at 11:55 PM
p.1 #2I've never taken such a colorful photo
I think this image shows the RF effect very nicely.
Nice colors too.
Well done.
Nice colors too.
Well done.
Dec 11, 2009 at 12:32 AM
p.1 #3I've never taken such a colorful photo
Do you have a link or instructions to the DIY? 
Dec 11, 2009 at 08:08 AM
p.1 #4I've never taken such a colorful photo
Here is my ring flash adapter. It's one of the simpler builds I've seen. Just 3 peices: 2 pie pans and one cup. I used a hot glue gun to attached the three pieces together.
1. I first chose a plastic cup out of my cabinet that fit over my lens and cut off the top and bottom with an exacto knife.
2. wrap aluminum tape over the cup to increase reflectivity.
3. cut a hole (with exacto knife) in the back pie pan so it would slide over the cup and hot glued it to the cup.
4. cut the second pie pan to to slide over the front part of the cup and trimmed the edges off to create a ring. then glue that pan to the cup
5. trim and fold down flap so your flash can be inserted.
Just an FYI: This is my first beta flash ring. I have plans to build a much better looking one this weekend based on this design http://www.flickr.com/photos/graustark_jiro/3083173333/in/photostream/
Here are photos of my ugly thing:
Notice the light leaking through where the front pie pan is glued to the cup:
1. I first chose a plastic cup out of my cabinet that fit over my lens and cut off the top and bottom with an exacto knife.
2. wrap aluminum tape over the cup to increase reflectivity.
3. cut a hole (with exacto knife) in the back pie pan so it would slide over the cup and hot glued it to the cup.
4. cut the second pie pan to to slide over the front part of the cup and trimmed the edges off to create a ring. then glue that pan to the cup
5. trim and fold down flap so your flash can be inserted.
Just an FYI: This is my first beta flash ring. I have plans to build a much better looking one this weekend based on this design http://www.flickr.com/photos/graustark_jiro/3083173333/in/photostream/
Here are photos of my ugly thing:
Notice the light leaking through where the front pie pan is glued to the cup:
Dec 11, 2009 at 11:13 PM
p.1 #5I've never taken such a colorful photo
I think you should teach your daughter that the peace sign is with the hand turned palm-out. In some countries what she's signing means something completely different
Love the lighting, and the colors!
T
Love the lighting, and the colors!
T
Dec 12, 2009 at 12:05 AM
p.1 #6I've never taken such a colorful photo
debtoine wrote:
I think you should teach your daughter that the peace sign is with the hand turned palm-out. In some countries what she's signing means something completely different
Love the lighting, and the colors!
T
Playing devil's advocate, why do you assume she is trying to sign peace? Teenagers these days have totally different ideas and in this case it could be something, as you say totally different but meaningful in her environment
free country?
regards,
jim
I think you should teach your daughter that the peace sign is with the hand turned palm-out. In some countries what she's signing means something completely different
Love the lighting, and the colors!
T
Playing devil's advocate, why do you assume she is trying to sign peace? Teenagers these days have totally different ideas and in this case it could be something, as you say totally different but meaningful in her environment
free country?
regards,
jim
Dec 12, 2009 at 07:38 AM
p.1 #7I've never taken such a colorful photo
Thanks!! Doesn't look any worse than my DIY beauty dish that I attempted I will try to make one of these and add to my DIY beauty dish and Chuck Gardner DIY diffuser.
Please post updates on the newer version with examples if successful.
I will try to make one of these and add to my DIY beauty dish and Chuck Gardner DIY diffuser.Please post updates on the newer version with examples if successful.
Dec 12, 2009 at 09:30 AM
p.1 #8I've never taken such a colorful photo
Well, my modified ring flash adapter was a failure. It only shines light on the bottom half of the picture and fades dark pretty quick on the top half. I was using a mirror to bend the light which didn't work very well.
Here is another photo with version 1 (with some extra PP):
Here is another photo with version 1 (with some extra PP):
Dec 16, 2009 at 07:49 PM
p.1 #9I've never taken such a colorful photo
The last photo is nice too...not for the ringlight effect, but because of the composition and expressions on the faces.
Dec 16, 2009 at 08:12 PM
p.1 #10I've never taken such a colorful photo
nice DIY Mattr...
curios:.. did you purposely embossed the photos? or way over sharpen it? i feel it that way.
curios:.. did you purposely embossed the photos? or way over sharpen it? i feel it that way.
Dec 22, 2009 at 05:44 AM
p.1 #11I've never taken such a colorful photo
Vuilang,
I did not use embossed filter. I used the High Pass/Linear light technique, which in a way is overly sharpening an image. But mainly it helps with increasing contrast.
I did not use embossed filter. I used the High Pass/Linear light technique, which in a way is overly sharpening an image. But mainly it helps with increasing contrast.
Dec 22, 2009 at 07:54 AM
p.1 #12I've never taken such a colorful photo
Haha, this is very cute, I'm sure she'll like it!
Dec 22, 2009 at 09:10 AM
p.1 #13I've never taken such a colorful photo
What a great idea! Love it! Thanks kindly for sharing!
Dec 22, 2009 at 10:11 AM
p.1 #14I've never taken such a colorful photo
grafx wrote:
Do you have a link or instructions to the DIY?
Here is my latest version build.
Do you have a link or instructions to the DIY?
Here is my latest version build.
Dec 24, 2009 at 02:34 PM
p.1 #15I've never taken such a colorful photo
Very cool~ thank you for posting!
Dec 24, 2009 at 02:50 PM
p.1 #16I've never taken such a colorful photo
Nice pic. Plenty of pop. I guess she doesn't like the French though
Dec 24, 2009 at 05:05 PM