Ring Flash Photography

[@paulsastroutomo4273]

you are the best, I like the way you explain from start to finish very clearly. thank you

[@CameraClubLive]

You are welcome!

[@bikalpa1234]

Thank you very much for the light engineering part, at the beginning of the episode. thank you very much for teaching all those things. Have a great time.

[@CameraClubLive]

You're very welcome!

[@sanjeevatre566]

Nice video once again. I love his simplicity of explanation of technical points ❤

[@CameraClubLive]

Glad you liked it!

[@ChrisVerhaegen-m2d]

what a beautiful clear explanation and visually well presented.

[@CameraClubLive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@IanBray-v6p]

Another extremely well explained and instructive video.

[@CameraClubLive]

Thanks again!

[@Arripa-777]

The ring-light gives a very nice light. It looks like a cosmetic fashion shoot with a thistle ! Thank you for the comparison with the other light. Great video ! 🌻

[@CameraClubLive]

Glad you liked it.

[@leto_len]

Wonderful as always, thank you Tony.

[@CameraClubLive]

Very welcome

[@RosadoBuisness]

Nice work. Thanks again for the video.

[@CameraClubLive]

Thank you too!

[@TeddyCavachon]

Being a photojournalist rather than artist by inclination and training I’ve always preferred the natural model of a single sun as key or backlight and with skylight acting as fill and key light. I apprenticed and assisted with Monte Zucker from 1972-74 who took all his wedding and other portraits by the light of a north facing window with reflector forward of the face for fill and re-enacted ceremony action with carefully placed off camera flash with a identical flash on a bracket over lens and eye line of subjects for fill producing rich toned, full-detailed color prints. Outdoors in sun it was used as backlight, the faces posed into the northern skylight as by the north facing window to get a subtle mask of highlights on the front of the face then adding the same center fill on the camera and matching the placement and angle and lighting pattern of the off camera flash to the “key” component of the skylight blending them as seamlessly as possible, just adding the flash to overcome the dynamic range limitations of the recording / output medium. Ring lights have their origin in medical and dental photography where the goal was flat shadowless lighting, often in body cavities while keeping the camera equipment covered in sterile wraps. Macro photographers started to use them and two flashes crossed at 45° and that became the norm for the look of most macro photography. It’s not bad lighting since it reveals the subject very effectively, but it’s not natural. My inspiration and mentor for Macro photographer named Harry Yen a part-time photographer for Monte whose day job was making color prints for displays at National Geographic. Regardless of the size of the subject he used a traditional three light fill/key/rimlight lighting strategy often bringing the subject into his basement studio. Out in the field he would use mirrors to bounce backlight back into the front of subject and bring black mat board and pastel chalk to create non-distracting backgrounds for his macro subjects. His work was so outstanding that in the editors of the National Geographic ran a six page feature with his photos. My next job after Monte was also working at NGS in the Photomechanical Lab 😊 Since learned Monte’s Key over Centered Fill speedlight technique most of my flash photos in the 50 years since have been taken that way, since 2000 digitally with my Fill mounted on the same Stroboframe camera-flip bracket which keeps it centered above the lens in landscape and portrait mode so there is no change in the lighting when camera is flipped. I’ve also done a lot of experimenting with on flash diffusers and came up with this which bounces flash forward or splits it between forward and ceiling bounce when that the better option photo.nova.org/DIY01/ For macro shooting I devised this diffuser for the on camera flash: photo.nova.org/MacroDiffuser/ which works well by itself or with an off camera flash as rim lighting for more natural lighting. Again that’s just my preference and something I did to avoid the cost of buying a ring flash 💸 😊

[@CameraClubLive]

Thankyou for your comment, thanks for watching.

[@TeddyCavachon]

@@CameraClubLive Thanks for doing what you do to mentor others 👍😃

[@hankfoto]

Thank you very much for your alighting demo . So now I found a way to do more photos of the same of the same subject. By bringing my ring light along also.

[@CameraClubLive]

Thank you for your comment, and thanks for watching.

[@MahmoudChams]

Thank you for the beautiful video and information 👍 I like to see how this light will work with bigger objects ? As this is very small and the light cover it very well!

[@pakko7416]

I would like to see ring flash on the market for 35mm cameras. It makes a big difference in macro photography!

[@kbqvist]

​@@pakko7416 Are you aware of the ring light attachment to the godox ad200?

[@CameraClubLive]

More to come with a ring light in the future. Thanks for watching.

[@mylovesquirrels]

Thank You so much for another great video!

[@CameraClubLive]

Thanks for watching!

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@CameraClubLive]

Thanks for watching!

[@gary.kenyon]

Great watch and fab shot.

[@CameraClubLive]

Thank you for watching

[@lucashenriquesoares6605]

você é mestre! muito obrigado pelo seus videos e sua didática, e obrigado por mais esse fundamento, sempre aprendo algo novo com você!

[@CameraClubLive]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@andread4721]

Great explanation! Thanks! What's the clamp you use for the plant?

[@CameraClubLive]

That is retort or lab stand. Thanks for watching.

[@andread4721]

@@CameraClubLive Thank you!

[@pauldarville3843]

Very nice, Thanks!!

[@CameraClubLive]

Glad you liked it!

[@ElectricCelluloid]

Thanks as always.

[@CameraClubLive]

My pleasure!

[@poche660]

What is the name of the black cloth you used behind the subject?

[@CameraClubLive]

The background is a black wool cloth. Thanks for watching.

[@nelsonpino130]

Gracias por sus videos ojala lo puedan traducir al español.

[@CameraClubLive]

Yes, I can thank you for watching.

[@nelsonpino130]

Sería genial soy un fanático de sus tutoriales.

[@roybixby6135]

I'm still no fan of ringlights - it looks too flat. I'll leave ringlights to the forensic photographers ... 🦘

[@poche660]

We use them in metallography work. They are a good tool to display and photograph fracture surfaces for failure analysis reports.

[@roybixby6135]

@@poche660 I use ring lights but judiciously ...🦘

[@Arripa-777]

It depends of the subject.

[@CameraClubLive]

Flat light is sort of the point. Thanks for watching anyway.