Flash Ring

A flash ring is the perfect way to take a macro shot with flash as macro photography can be tricky, so if you can use a flash ring to sort out the lighting issues, you are more than half way there. A normal flash unit fixes to the top of the camera, but due to the nature of macro photography, a flash ring is usually screwed onto the end of the macro lens, so that it flashes around the lens which is focused on the subject; this ensures a perfect exposure for the finished image and means that the close focusing of the subject doesn't create a 'burned out' effect from too much light. Of course, the ring flash communicates with the camera, to give the correct shutter speed and aperture and many of the ring lights are LED with diffused glass, to create a softer light.