made a ringflash today.

THese are the basics I was working with.

2 inch thick styrofoam from Michaels Carboard Glue

You can see by this point I had glued the styrofoam circle I cut to the cardboard backing disc and was working on the piece to go over the flash unit.

Once those two flash units were assembled I lined the whole inside of it with foil (glued down) and you can see the angle i put on the inside, its that flappy piece of cardboard on the section on the right. The angle is to take the light and send it downward into the flash ring, without that angle there is a 90 degree wall which would bounce much of the light back at the flash unit.

here I have attached the flash mount piece to the top and there is a section cut into the styrofoam to allow the light to pass into the ring. I added a cardboard ring on top of the front facing section that has a 1/4 to a 1/2 inch (i measured nothing this whole project) overhang. My limited knowledge of lighting led me to believe this foiled overhang would bounce light around inside the ring better and not allow it to just spill out the smooth sides.

The unit finished.

I wrapped it all up in black duct tape.

This thing took about 4-5 hours to build and cost me $12 for the styrofoam, I had everything else laying around.

First shot with it. Not to shabby if you ask me! I've always wanted one of these but cant justify the spend with the limited amount I will actually deploy it so at 12 bucks, its a steal.

Sweet. Congrats!

that's cool.

considering that "...i measured nothing this whole project ..." & "... My limited knowledge of lighting ..." I think that "... Not to shabby ..." is an understatement!!

You've done exceedingly well there, and it kept you off the streets and out of trouble!