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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 1:31 pm
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voop
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by rkkwan
For portraits, won't a ring in the reflection of the eye become distracting?
Yes -- portraits taken with a ring flash give the models that "dead-chicken-look" in the eyes. Fashion-shots with a ring-flash enhances the natural "Dead-chicken-look" of the models to perfection.....

I've got my ring-flash quasi-permanently mounted on my macro-gear, and haven't (other than the occasional testing) found an use for it other than macro
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