"Sex is like maths, add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the whoo hoo and hope you don't multiply." - Leather jacket guy
Why not just rent a couple from Samy's and see which works best for you?
I'm not sure if you're aware but if you're going to shoot portraits but ring flashes will give you circular specular highlights
in the subjects eyes. A regular on camera type flash mounted below the front standard bouncing off a reflector card would probably work
if you're just needing fill, smaller and and a lot easier to schlep.
For what it's worth I own a Alien Bees ring light and they're huge and deep, not sure if their Zeus/ White Lighting is shallower
I usually use mine as a normal strobe mounted on a arm. I get a good work out when hand holding it with a DSLR attached.
Well if you are open to other types of modifiers maybe this could work...
http://petapixel.com/2012/05/21/diy-...g-solo-shoots/
You are already lugging a 4x5 for street photography (assuming that's what it's for). Cool factor is relative.
"Sex is like maths, add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the whoo hoo and hope you don't multiply." - Leather jacket guy
Can you use a worklight/brooding light bowl. It won't be ringflash, it'll be better; Mortensen's basic lighting!
I'm not sure about using a ringlight for portraits... The (I forget the term) for the facial highlight structure where the outlines and the raised curves on a face look odd to me with a ringlight for my taste... (not natural) And the catchlights in the eyes have that "doughnut hole" look...
I just use a 20" white solid reflector with the white cover cap over the flashtube for simple people lighting with a studio strobe... (Usually just needs to be close to and slightly over the lens...) And choke the light output back if only used for fill...
Steve K
Yeah..this was actually my first idea..kinda
and what I did one year is double super-clamp a pole to the tripod that held my Qflash head and a small softbox - but that rig was frankensteined to a hand golf cart with wheels
I was hoping to go monopod set up... so I might end up clamping a super-clamp to the monopod holding a light rod with a lighter flash on that.. to get off slightly camera axis fill
I'll mess around with that this weekend if I can
note: I'm not sure I would mind the detail-less flat frontal fashion ringlight look.. street photography doesn't have to be 'gritty'
In all honest at 5' in order for ring flash to be of any use it has to be pretty darn big. You much better off with just using two shoo through umbrellas and two portable flashes - at iso 100 you should get f8 easily and also would have hell of the lot more flexibility in lighting scenarios
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