Light Fare: The "Jarvie Window"
Here's a new use for your ring flash. Salt Lake City-based photographer Scott Jarvie made a unique set of portraits using a Ray Flash ring flash adapter and an 8mm fisheye lens.
Gimmicky? Perhaps. Fun and creative? Yup.
Cue the flood of imitators on Flickr in 3, 2, 1…
(Thanks much to Ben for the tip via the comments section.)
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29 Comments:
Really cool, give a whole new perspective to a frame within a frame. I did something similar to this back in college, but these are really cool!
Thanks David, and thanks for prepping me so i could make the site look presentable before the massive traffic.
I've had the chance to use the "Jarvie Window" at WPPI where it was a bit hit among photographers and specially at the parties.
More parties and even a wedding reception coming up later this week. Should be fun.
I hope people enjoy the writeup of how exactly to do it themselves and I look forward to a write up on PhotoFocus about lessons learned from it. http://jarviedigital.com
Looks awesome! I never did the portraits quite that close before, http://tridentphotography.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/ring-flash/ but I will try it now. I really like the hands in the ring too.
Jeff
This certainly is something gimmicky, but I think that's OK here. It's being used as something fun and different and I could see people at weddings thinking that this is something really cool. Well done.
A photog in the Philly area did something similar a while back using a DIY ringlight.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/djsatone/3704728195/sizes/o/
I laughed my tail off at this Jarvie Goatse: http://photos.jarviedigital.com/The-Events/2010-Photo-Meetups/Jarvie-Window/0103S22603/787784049_thwF4-Th.jpg
Great find David.
All eyes on Flickr from this point on...lol
Cheers,
Glyn
Hahaha awesome :)
The kind of stuff we regularly do with Miss but keep "friends & family" on flickr :)
The ring flash idea is so creative, it brings a very interesting new look to wide angle portraiture. Imagine a CEO shot like that :D
Pretty cool..
When I was building myself a ringflash a month or so ago I was playing around with it during testing and kinda came up with the whole tunnelling thing by mistake!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4425304&l=400b46e6bd&id=511611893
You can actually see the ducktape on the inside of the ring.. Ended up cropping it a bit.. no where near as sharp or tight as Jarvies shots though..
I would like to object to the term 'Jarvie Window' though.. its more of a 'Jarvie Porthole' isn't it? :)
I've done a simlar set with an aluminium Ikea lampshade. Think of people climbing into a deep Octa and you're halfway there!
Great job on Smugmug too.
@Rick, I thought the same thing! Sadly, once you see Goatse, it is permanently burned into your brain :-(
Warning, DO NOT GOOGLE "Goatse"
I would have to say Goatse is one of the worse things I have EVER seen.
In regards to these shots, I think they are pretty fun!
Gimmicky? Definitely. Useful? Once or twice in a lifetime, perhaps? Creative? No longer - it's been done now!
Ha! And to think I was there when he made these. I feel like a part of history, though I didn't think much of it at the time.. Good one Jarvie!
Looks awesome!..i'm gonna be trying it!
I doth protest!
This was more or less the first thing I did when I got my ring flash...
But I've got to hand it to Jarvie, he did a better job than I did :)
Just a heads up up for the U.S. readers, Hollywood Video rental stores are closing, I got a lightstand with 4 Justin clamps for $25......
Cool stuff, reminds me a lot of ben lowy's street shots through tank windows.
Hey there, cool, we actually did this me and my friend back in last december, and posted the pics on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11567892&l=074904291b&id=676005526
Is it a gimmick?
Define Gimmick - "An innovative or unusual mechanical contrivance; a gadget."
Probably - using that definition and in this case a cool gimmick indeed. Jarvie was a bona fide hit at WPPI with this and while Mr. Hobby is right, it will be copied copiously, I think we'll all still be calling it the "Jarvie Window."
Cool beans in my book.
I like to crop in close but this takes the cake.
Well, this will forever be known as a "Jarvie"!
LOL Goatse
First thing I thought when I saw these. Very cool effect, though.
Cue its use in a NuvaRing ad in 3, 2, 1...
What I find cool -- is that with the billions of photos being taken everyday - someone is able to come up with something that others hadn't -- cool.
I love it! Gimmicky-or-not - it's unique...
Nice!
I tried this with an orbis but never got pask Kong and onto people.
http://daveshorty.smugmug.com/People/Better-and-Weta/6450847_sZwPP#814504145_w93nD-L-LB
I'm too slow..
Great use of the 8mm lens to acheive the look.
The day I took delivery of my RayFlash I tried something similar using my SB-800 and an SC-29 cord so I could hold the ringflash and shoot though it in such a way that the inner rim would be visible in the photo.
Needless to say the results were very hit and miss, even with a lens as lightweight as 50mm f/1.4 attached. Still, it's potentially a viable alternative if you don't have a lens as wide as 8mm, though nowhere near as quick and easy to use.
Example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinmcneil/4447711100 (shot 11/2008)
Excellent one me too want to try it.
Thanks for sharing.
It was done long ago, over 2 years ago actually. :)
Back Through the Flash
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewedwards/2232734641/
I did something similar back in college, it was a nice little gimmick I used to photograph all my co-workers with. I used a 1Ds Mk II, 14mm f/2.8, and a RingFlash.
http://www.kurtimaging.com/CageProject
Awesome. I suggested using the Jarvie Window at a fundraiser next month. I'm going to shoot them, cut them out and put them on buttons.The theme of the fundraiser is a memorial to a writer who really loved buttons.
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