{"id":38,"date":"2006-02-08T16:07:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-02-08T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T21:07:36","slug":"2-on-diy-ring-flashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/2-on-diy-ring-flashes\/","title":{"rendered":"2 on DIY ring flashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ring flashes are circular flash units that mount around the lens and produce flat, even lighting. They&#8217;re generally used for macro photography and were popular for fashion photography in the 90s. As they&#8217;re quite expensive, these two articles on how to make your own are quite handy. Both have solid step-by-step instructions.<\/p>\n<p>First is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennisonbertram.com\/hackmaster\/2005\/02\/build-your-own-ring-flash.htm\">how-to from DigiHack<\/a> about making an adaptor rig for an existing flash unit. Cheap and easy.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s one from Robots Kick Ass on <a href=\"http:\/\/brainerror.net\/texts_macroring_en.php\">how to make a ring flash from scratch using LEDs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/02\/diy_ring_light_from_christmas.html\">MAKE Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ring flashes are circular flash units that mount around the lens and produce flat, even lighting. They&#8217;re generally used for macro photography and were popular for fashion photography in the 90s. As they&#8217;re quite expensive, these two articles on how to make your own are quite handy. Both have solid step-by-step instructions. First is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[481,617,984,1067,1496,1497],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cam-hacking-diy","tag-diy","tag-flash","tag-led","tag-macro","tag-ring-flash","tag-ring-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->