DIY Ringflash/light

I've been a little bored lately, so I decided to make a ringlight/flash for my camera. When you use the flash on your camera, it sometimes (most of the time) gives you that harsh flash look to your pictures with a pretty bad shadow. Well a ringflash softens the light a bit and gets rid of the shadow for the most part. You can buy a ringflash that fits over your speedlight for a couple hundred bucks or so, but my version cost less than a couple bucks. I used some cardboard, aluminum foil on the inside to reflect the light around, a piece of white garbage bag to diffuse the light when it comes out, and lots.... LOTS of tape.

Here's a shot with just the flash....

...and here's one with my contraption attached.... gives a little better light on her I think (even though the photo itself is a little blurry, chalk to that up to operator error)

Anyways, nothing really spectacular, just thought it was cool and something to share.

Splash

Headache Update

This is how I feel right now.... a little grumpy.

I have a little update on my headaches.... Things haven't been getting any better lately, so I called my doctor a couple weeks ago to see if there was anything else we could do. She prescribed me a medication called Thorazine, to take when I have a severe headache, which has been occuring more and more frequently lately. The Thorazine pretty much just knocks me out for 12+ hours.... no joke, I mean knocked out. It also makes me a little woozy when I stand up and move around. It's actually the drug I was on in the hospital(well one of them) that I passed out while I was taking it.

Anyways, fast forward to this week I talked to my doctor again in Philly and she said that things seem to have gone downhill since I was in the hospital, and the only thing she can think of is that they took me off one of my medicines while in there, so she wants to start me back on the Lyrica and see if that helps any. She also wants to see me before my scheduled appt that wasn't until May. So I have to go back to Philly on April 14th.

Also, today I was able to see the pain management doctor in Roanoke. I wasn't supposed to go in till the end of April, but they had a cancellation and so I got in early. He felt around on my neck and head, and said that I didn't have any of the signs that are usually associated with having problems with facetal nerves. He said he would do the facet nerve block injections that the doctors in Philly wanted, but he wasn't sure it'd be any help.

So that's why I'm kinda grumpy feeling today... and thats the update.

Because I don't really have any recent photos that I wanna post.... I reach into the film archive....

My Girls

Holga Mia

yeah so the reflection covers part of her face.... I still like the way it looks for some reason.

Leaning Tower

Our House

As many of you know, Stephanie and I are moving from Radford to Franklin County. It was a tough choice, but ultimately with me being sick as much as I am, I need to be close to my family so they can help me out with Mia while Stephanie is in school and soon working. We had been talking about putting a house at our family fish pond for some time..... we're finally following thru with those plans and starting the many tasks that are associated with that. This is the first step.... planting a stake at the point where our house will sit.

Kiss

Mia and Jayden.

Bad Hair Day