Ringlight and various :stuff:

[DrEntropy]

Tried out the light with water droplets ... naaah. Not right for reflections:




Went on to other things:



Darktable fussing:

 

[GregW]

Is the ring light on the lens? Maybe try it off camera above and to the side? Also possibly shoot it through some diffusion or bounce it.

 

[DrEntropy]

Is the ring light on the lens? Maybe try it off camera above and to the side? Also possibly shoot it through some diffusion or bounce it.

Yep, lens mounted. Likely it would still show up more-or-less as a ringed refraction off-camera. And this one is a bit wimpy in output.

 

[DrEntropy]

Lordv's flash setup, it makes sense. I'll need to play around with some of the things we've got here.

 

[DrEntropy]

Did a "quick-n-dirty" setup to play with:



First shot with wide open aperture (∱2.5 +2 for adapter) and available light, DoF at around 15° from perpendicular is a millimeter or two!


Second one is at ∱22 with the flash dialed down and no diffusion, six inches from the penny. DoF is not bad.



Both penny images are full frame.

 

[GregW]

Amazing how the flash changes the texture of the penny.

 

[Basil]

Amazing how the flash changes the texture of the penny.

Looks like two different pennies.