Paul Duncan's Ingenious Ringlight
You want ingenuity? Paul Duncan will show you some ingenuity. The photo at left was taken with his Bogus Artificial Ringlight Fabrication, or B.A.R.F., for short.The cost? Darn-near free.
Materials? A piece of cardboard and some foil.
Intrigued? I was.
Try for a second to figure it out. Then check out this diagram to see how he created his elegant light light for nuthin'. And check out some of the other photos in his wonderful Flickr stream, too.
Nice work, Paul.
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Posted at 12:10 AM.
13 Comments:
Dave, just a tip for your speedlinks, have a look here http://fuzzcraft.fuzzphoto.eu/ringlight4-0.html for a ringlight version with fiber optics, and here http://dansdata.com/ringlight.htm for something little more mundane-ebay LEDs.
Mr. Strobist,
found this really cool ringlight setup.
http://www.modelmayhem.com/p.php?thread_id=194732
Mark
this is totally that old school dr's headband mirror/light.
There's nothing like a tap from Mr. Strobist's magic wand to spring a quiet little Flickr stream to life! Thanks for the shout-out David (and many thanks for your contagious enthusiasm for the more-brains/less-gear approach to creativity).
Paul Duncan
In school my photo department head pounded into our heads the rule in lighting...
"Angle of incidence equals the angle of reflectance"
What a great example of somebody putting that rule to use in a very clever way.
looks nice but didn't paulo do this a long time ago?
Hi Dave.
I did this trick a while ago to when i was fascinated with ring lights.
set up is here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100thousandquestions/608395457/in/set-72157594502797700/
and photos that resulted are here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100thousandquestions/617864359/in/set-72157594502788050/
it's not cardboard, but a plastic white ring with a couple of gobos on the two flashes. It was a bit hairy on the foot print, but it cost nothing!
Just tried to build such an elliptic thing in about 10 minutes from cardboard and aluminum paper, works wonders but the hardest thing is to get 0% spill from the flash to the subject and find the exact angle (because I was proceeding to my tests whild handhelding the whole thing :p)
strobist of the month award for this!
Whatta bit of thinking!
that is a brilliant piece of thinking.
Have you tried this RF with the laptop shot? You can put your RF on the laptop screen and flash at it. It may give an interesting result.
If I set my strobe to auto or ttl and dial down the EV to -2 will I get the same results?
I made one from a Fruit Loops box. Lined the inside with foil. It was decent but I'm probably going to try a more advanced method or suck it up and get the Orbis.
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