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Understanding Ring Lights / Ring Flashes: A Photography Lighting Tutorial

June 30, 2012 By Morgan Leave a Comment

A great lighting tool is the Ring Light or Ring Flash. The Ring Light was invented in the 1950’s as a light source to capture medical images. Fashion photographers and DP’s soon found this great light source and used it to shoot people. It’s perfect because it creates a wonderful highlight on the skin and allows the shadows to fall away from the camera. This video is a look at how to use a Ring Light or Ring Flash.

Keep those cameras rolling and keep on click’n!

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