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My DIY ringflash that I've been doing for the last few days.
(Photo, starting from top left) Description
(1) I started with a 24 cm diameter steel bown and a normal food can.
(2) Added some tape on the bowl and drew the cutting lines with the can as a guide.
(3) Bottom from the bowl and can removed. I also shortened the cat a little bit. I first drilled a hole on the bottom of the bowl and then cut the metal with metal cutters.
(4) The two parts connected with strong epoxy that was meant for metals.
(5) Hole for the flash made and few connecting holes drilled. Also the needed aluminum parts are cut and bent in shape.
(6) The bottom part covered with black hockey tape. In the photo it has a Manfrotto quick attachment plate on it. Also has a hole for attaching it to the tripod mount of the camera.
(7) The top part where the flash is attached. Made some holes for the DIY TTL flash cord.
(8) I added some plastic parts for the flash hole to make it look nicer and to prevent light from escaping too much. Next I added some putty to finish it (wasn't necessary but I got too carried away again with the building).
(9) Putty and the bowl fully sanded and waiting for some gray primer and matte black finish.
(10) Painted and finished. Added some black hockey tape on the can's edge to prevent it from scratching the camera.
(11) Close up of the flash hole. A little bit of aluminum foil tape on the inside and black hockey tape on the edge.
(12) White thin fabric streched and being glued on the edges to get some diffusion to the light. There is a rubber band holding the fabric to the can.
See the finished righflash:
* DIY ringflash finished, without camera
* DIY ringflash finished, with camera
Cost: bowl 3€, can 0€, aluminum 1€ + some extra costs from paints etc. but I'm not going to count them to the total. Cheap anyway.
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From yesterday's drama in the garden: I suspected the spider was wrapping the Ladybug up even though she was mobile enough to turn around a little. Remembering this is made with a 100 macro with extension tube, it's still cropped a lot, but if you look hard you can see the spider's silken strands here and there. She (I guess she's a she) was going down, but I interfered and uh broke it up.
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Shoot this one today, using a blue gel in one of the three flashes.
Experimenting pieces of the new setup before I get it all togheter...
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Tirei essa hoje, usando um gel azul em um dos três flashes.
Experimentando partes do novo setup antes de juntar tudo...
strobist: ABR800 Ringflash about 5' away, shoot through hand held unattached
Post Processing: technique I learned from Coffee Shop group...
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My DIY ringflash, see the workflow for more info and descriptions.
Hanimex CX-25 through the DIY umbrella diffuser from above. Hard to say the power level of the flash because it doesn't have any scale for now. ;) Background is the same white fabric that I used as a diffuser on the righflash and also with the umbrella. Shot with Nikon D2H + Nikkor 50mm/1.8D, flash connected to the camera thru the DIY multi flash sync box (for safe sync because the flash is with high trigger voltage).
Thanks, everyone for the ID. Now I know it's a grub, and it's creepy. About an inch long, fat, and it has lots of friends living under the bark of my new drought-tolerant front yard. The birds have been digging in the bark for these tasty morsels. This one was out on the DG this morning. More power to the birds.
Well, it's Hockey Day in Canada, there's a party for the 1st anniversary of the Vancouver Olympics and Abraham Lincoln and I are a year older...would be a great day if I wasn't still sick, and at work.
No time for shooting this week (it's moving week -- I'm buried in boxes!). Here's one from the hopper. Lucy says hello to all.
AB ringflash, 1/4 power, handheld. AB 800 w/ 10-degree grid aimed at Lucy's left side, from just behind.
Quick LR edit.. didn't need much
First shoot where actually liked the results from trying the ringflash so took quite a few! :)
The above image was captured during a Welshot Imaging Chester Academy Evening. The theme this month was all about “Vintage and Valentines – Off Camera Flash Photography”.
For more information about Welshot Imaging see their site:
To take my mind off the crisis in Japan, I decided to test the Olympus XZ-1's strobist capability. I'm happy to say that it's perfectly suited for the following reasons -
1) The built in flash has easy to set 1/64. 1/12.1/4 and full power settings - so it is easy to control my external slave flashes
2) The dynamic range is good - not as good as a APS-C sensor but it's close - you can see I lost some detail in the hair but that's also due to pushing the curves - but it's still amazing
3) It can control Olympus flashes wirelessly
4) And the best news - It can sync with any flash at up to 1/2000th of a second - no need for expensive FP enabled flashes. Even the simplest $50 flashes can deliver 1/2000th sec flash sync - albeit with some power loss at full power.
See can see the other Olympus XZ-1 shots
Strobist info - One corded Olympus FL-50 in a Orbis Flash set in TTL mode - it's that easy!