Wednesday, May 1, 2013

DIY macro lighting arm

I was planning to buy the Olympus LED macro arm to see if this setup will help my macro photos where some angles may not be suitable for conventional flash.

I came across a recommendation to use a twin LED lights for reading and glue a flash cover onto it. With this, a retractable LEB twin light was made. I use it to test and works well.  The LED twin lights is bought from Ebay at $5.00. The Flash cover only cost $1.00. Total cost is $6. Compared to the original Olympus Macro Arm that cost about $90.00.

The arm is good for shoot like situation where the Jumping spider was hidden in between the leaves. If a conventional bounced flash is used, there will be shadows etc.





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