Canon 30D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Shutter Speed 1
Aperture f/16
ISO 400
Hello everyone! Tonight you get me, Scott, because life happens and Jay'me will be unable to post. It happens to the best of us and I'm always happy to flaunt my latest experiments! We'll catch ya next time Jay'me! Sorry it's not working out for you tonight.
Here you see the experimentation of a frustrated budget. You see, I can't buy everything I want. Otherwise, I would have a real ring flash of my own and wouldn't have to buy an angel food cake for the sole purpose of making my own ring flash. That's right, I made my own using an angel food cake pan (of the plastic sort - still looking for a metal one to make a more permanent ring flash).
For those who may not know what a ring flash is check this out. Its necessary when you get so close your lens would throw a shadow over the subject using a normal speed light or built-in flash. The results can be fantastic. As for me, I needed to make mine. I plan on posting a photo of it on our flickr page when I get a chance. In the meantime, here's the how-to.
My problems didn't stop once I built the flash. You see, my camera is old. Furthermore, because of my said budgetary woes, I don't own a remote cable for my flash. I just can't buy it knowing whatever camera I buy next will be able to wirelessly trigger my flash head. So what's a guy to do?
I had my subject stand in a dark room, focused manually, set the shutter to 1 second, and fired the strobe manually. It was very reminiscent of my self-portrait, except I wasn't likely to run into a parked car. It also means there is a little blur that just pisses me off. Wait till I get everything I want! It'll be amazing.
My connection with Sere's beautiful wolves is simple: they have fantastic eyes. I wonder what they would look like really close? I'll leave that to braver souls. For me, I'll stick to angel food cake and humans.
As it turns out, I got to play with a real ring flash. My brother-in-law has one for use with his dental practice and he was kind enough to lend it to me for a week (Thanks Scottcee!). I actually really like the results but I thought since I went through the effort of making my own I really should post a photo using the homemade rig. Here's one with a real ring flash. There is some ghosting and I'm not entirely sure why. But the detail is great.
Okay, I'm off for now y'all. Peace out!
Scott
Here you see the experimentation of a frustrated budget. You see, I can't buy everything I want. Otherwise, I would have a real ring flash of my own and wouldn't have to buy an angel food cake for the sole purpose of making my own ring flash. That's right, I made my own using an angel food cake pan (of the plastic sort - still looking for a metal one to make a more permanent ring flash).
For those who may not know what a ring flash is check this out. Its necessary when you get so close your lens would throw a shadow over the subject using a normal speed light or built-in flash. The results can be fantastic. As for me, I needed to make mine. I plan on posting a photo of it on our flickr page when I get a chance. In the meantime, here's the how-to.
My problems didn't stop once I built the flash. You see, my camera is old. Furthermore, because of my said budgetary woes, I don't own a remote cable for my flash. I just can't buy it knowing whatever camera I buy next will be able to wirelessly trigger my flash head. So what's a guy to do?
I had my subject stand in a dark room, focused manually, set the shutter to 1 second, and fired the strobe manually. It was very reminiscent of my self-portrait, except I wasn't likely to run into a parked car. It also means there is a little blur that just pisses me off. Wait till I get everything I want! It'll be amazing.
My connection with Sere's beautiful wolves is simple: they have fantastic eyes. I wonder what they would look like really close? I'll leave that to braver souls. For me, I'll stick to angel food cake and humans.
As it turns out, I got to play with a real ring flash. My brother-in-law has one for use with his dental practice and he was kind enough to lend it to me for a week (Thanks Scottcee!). I actually really like the results but I thought since I went through the effort of making my own I really should post a photo using the homemade rig. Here's one with a real ring flash. There is some ghosting and I'm not entirely sure why. But the detail is great.
Okay, I'm off for now y'all. Peace out!
Scott
