Halo Eye Affect

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throughthelens24

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Hello all!
I love seeing portrait photos where in the subjects eyes is a halo lighting affect. It looks beautiful and I would like to acheive that. I found a ring flash that I think could accomplish that affect, but I wanted to make sure I was correct.
Here it is:
Will this ring flash
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get me this
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If not then what will?

Thank you for your responses!

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Fred Kingston

Fred Kingston

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Just so you know, there's software available that lets you add "catch lites" to portraits... it can add dozens of different styles, and lets you move them around anywhere on the eye that you want to effect the light coming from different angles... the software is cheaper than that light...
 
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throughthelens24

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FredKingston said:
Just so you know, there's software available that lets you add "catch lites" to portraits... it can add dozens of different styles, and lets you move them around anywhere on the eye that you want to effect the light coming from different angles... the software is cheaper than that light...
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Oh really?! What is it called?

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BackdoorArts

BackdoorArts

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The ring light you show can give you that effect, but understand with reflections a lot depends on proximity and size of the light. The light you're showing is meant more as a macro/closeup light and not for portraits. At 8-10 feet away the ring in the reflection will almost appear as a huge round light because the gap in the middle is only a couple inches wide. You're going to need to be really close to your subject, and that presents you with another problem because a wide focal length is generally horrible for portraits.

The ring lights that portrait photographers use are much wider, like the one @skene linked, and yes they cost more, but that's what works.

If you want to go real cheap you can do this. Make your own ring light for portraits video - CNET If nothing else it will give you an idea of the size of the light source with respect to the camera size needed to create the effect.
 
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