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Ringlight for Sony a7 IV Mirrorless Camera

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
charlyw64 Contributing Member • Posts: 716
Re: Ringlight aesthetics
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Joseph S Wisniewski wrote:

Except, as you pointed out, ring lights are typically boring AF, so I'm illumnating the rear port with a ring of individually controllable LEDs. There's a bit of blending between the walls of the double cylinder, but it's still surprisingly effective.

Effective at lighting the subject but equally effective at creating unnatural looking reflections whenever there is only a sliver of reflective surfaces around, be it the eyes of the insect or the smallest of body areas not completely covered in hair... In nature we don't have a light source that looks like a ring and the direction of the light being close to the optical axis of the photo results in very unflattering lighting no matter how controllable the ring light is...

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