Since building my DIY ring fash I've not had a whole lot of time to use it but yesterday when I found myself with a few extra hours at home (courtesy of the storms that hit the south east of England and caused my train to be cancelled) I thought I'd have a play. I decided to try it out as a light source for macro shots.
I found it worked pretty well for some subjects. The ones which worked best were the things which had little surface texture. The ring doesn't provide the shadows & highlights needed to define texture. On the other hand subjects like this puzzle where all the texture is in the wood and the suface is smooth works brilliantly.
Setup
I shot tethered to the laptop so the images came up in Lightroom for detailed inspection. The setup was pretty much just the ring, camera, tripod and a couple of clamps. I used the torch as a focus assist lamp.
Post Processing
Besides the tone adjustments shown below I applied a farly shallow, smooth, S-curve in the curves control.
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