Ring Flash

Gaynor Gritzi has a very cool ring flash for photographers. I've only barely scratched the surface of what it can do, but already I can see two ways it can make lighting a shot easier.

The first is that I have a photo studio with three light balls that I manually move closer or farther away as needed. This isn't a lot of work, honestly, but it is a pain when I have a shot set up and then have to zoom my camera back and try to get the lights in the right spots. The Ring Flash HUD makes changing intensity, radius, falloff, and RGB values so much simpler and quicker than moving around the light balls.

The second is when I am out and about and am trying to take photos in a place where I really don't want to (or maybe can't because of permissions) pull out my own light balls. This ring flash just attaches to your head like a face light and makes the process much easier.

So to test this out in the field Uhi and I went to the WWF island.


HUD with default settings.


Playing around with environment settings set to midnight.


The ring flash on "show" so you can see the different lights. When you set the ring flash to "hide" you can't see the lightbulbs.

The only thing I can think of to make it better is having an easier way to go from one extreme to another (like going from 100% to 0%) on the settings, but I've never seen a better interface option on any other HUD (like a slider or input) so it probably isn't even possible to try a different approach.

This is a really great gadget and I am looking forward to getting a lot of use out of it!

Read more at Gaynor's site

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