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ring flash
I have seen in my lighting research lots of stuff about using a ring flash for people shots. How come you don't get wickedly bad red-eye from them, since they are about as close the the lense as you can get. Also, they all seem to have stupidly low GN - fine for macros, but not people. This leads me to believe that I am somehow missing something... Anyone care to explain? |
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ring flash
I have seen in my lighting research lots of stuff about using a ring flash for people shots. How come you don't get wickedly bad red-eye from them, since they are about as close the the lense as you can get. Also, they all seem to have stupidly low GN - fine for macros, but not people. This leads me to believe that I am somehow missing something... Anyone care to explain? I didn't like the look and never did it, I suppose you can get red eye easy, maybe they just retouch it out. the primary use of ring flash is for macro close ups so the power has to be low as it tends to be used only inches away. you can get similar effects, you can get a large parabolic reflector that you can shoot through, you can get four sheets of styrofoam with ends cut at a diagonal \__/ and tape, wire, glue whatever them in a squarish wall so the sides angle to reflecto towards the subject, and place a flash to bounce off them, or what was popular in the 80's for fashion was to put four or five umbrellas all round the camera position, you could see the weird catchlights in the makeup ads. in a small white room place a barebulb flash behind you, or use a wide field reflector as you don't need to aim light at your back, and have the light bounce from the walls ceiling and floor behind you, flat flat flat. actually what would be cool is a bare bulb right above the camera lens, with a reflector above and below for fill |
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