Or maybe its just male photographers, or maybe its just me. I have ended up with a lot of "accessories" that I do not remember what they were originally going to accessorize. The RayFlash is one of these. It essence it is a poor man's ring light. The very original thought behind it was that since most photographers already have a flash why not just take a bundle of fiber optic cable bend it into a circle, figure a way to mate it with the existing flash unit and you would have a very efficient ring flash for next to nothing - really about $200, but as photographers calculate that is nothing.
This weekend I decided to put it to use. Well, actually that had been my intention when I bought it more than a year ago. At that time I had an image of doing some crazy New York-style fashion photography. There was an immediate problem. I lacked New York fashion models! So into the equipment closet went the RayFlash. Then last weekend I decided that I actually had a lot of gorgeous dahlias that cried out to be photographed. Dahlias have some advantages over New York fashion models, almost as beautiful, but cheaper and lower maintenance.
The strategy I hit upon was to go outdoors at 2PM on a sunny day with the RayFlash mated to my Nikon SB800, with a 105 mm macro and a D700. How did I do it? How did I get such a black background?
1 comments:
The questions you asked at the end of the blog post were indeed the questions I had. How did you do it - do you describe your process somewhere?
Andy
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