I just tried macro photography yesterday using my Olympus E520, I stumbled this post the other night about a DIY ring flash made of styrofoam bowl of a noodles, I studied it and tried making one for my self. It works and I'm very impressed on the results, I was searching about some info on ring flash and LED video light for DLSR and then I saw that diy post, and I say this is the most cheapest ring flash diffuser.
I created my own version, but I miscalculated the hole that I made in that styro, shouldn't placed it on the middle and should be on the side of the center of the styro, so that the flash can hit that styro and illuminates the whole styro like a ring flash diffuser. And I also forgot to include a small styro. This DIY works also to any compact camera or point and shoot camera with built in pop up flash.
check out my macro photo samples below
you can see the diy here at http://www.flickr.com/photos/photophool/185168674/
my set up, I also inserted a Macro converter lens over my lens. I tried using the macro settings on the SCENE mode, but it doesn't activate the pop up flash, so I decided to the macro converter lens and it works perfectly fine. Now on the next test, I'm going to try this using for food photography. The styro ring flash can act also as a diffuser.
flower over a flower
angry ant
baby flower
my right eye
water from the faucet
can you spot the ghost image half face of a man on the water?
weird... and its impossible to be my reflection because the styro covers everything and my face is not reflected.
tiny spider
my wedding ring with Lace's name
spider webs
Bumble Bee
Piglet
remote control, omg! look at the dirt under the number button
match on fire
weird beetle
