DIY ring flash and pic of my eye. Question & picture.

[Alex]

<p>Today I made a ring flash/beauty dish out of a 9" shiny mixing bowl to attempt lighting for macro such my eye. I was pleased by the first effort but not 100% I noticed that my eye reflectec the whole dish covering alomost my entire pupil. So the black circle that you see is the actual lens surrounded by the actual dish.<br>

The question is. What would you recomend to eliminate/reduce the effect of loosing the pupil to this kind of photography? The camera was set to manual Speed @125th iso 400 F13 and the flash was a canon 580EX set on ETTL +1/3.<br>

Thanks for your imput.</p>

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[williamlewisphotography]

<p>Set your 580 to manual. When you use ETTL the flash will fire off a pre-flash to meter by, and that will cause the pupil to shrink.</p>

[kevin_delson]

<p>If you are speaking about the visible aspect of the ring flash; nothing.<br>

Ring flashes are not suited to this shot unless you get it off the camera.</p>

[Alex]

<p>Thanks william I'll try that. Kevin what king of lighting would you recomend to get pictures?<br>

Thanks<br>

Alex</p>