Wing Flash: a ring flash fashion AI photoshoot
Wing Flash gives you five frames and one detail close-up styled as an early-2000s music-magazine cover, lit by a ring flash wrapped around the lens. Every outline carries a thin dark halo on hot-pink paper, and each eye holds a small ring of light.
Art direction: Alex But
- Camera
- Digital medium format
- Lens
- 28 mm
- Aperture
- f/11
- Shutter
- 1/125 s
- Light
- Ring flash
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Six frames from this shoot
Five frames and one detail, made by haloshot from three phone photos of one person.
Frame 1 · Wing Flash 
Frame 2 · Wing Flash 
Frame 3 · Wing Flash 
Frame 4 · Wing Flash 
Frame 5 · Wing Flash 
Detail · Wing Flash
About the ring flash look
Because the ring sits on the lens axis, the light lands flat and almost shadowless. The only shadow is that narrow rim on the paper, cast by a figure standing a meter in front of it. Two background strobes keep the pink sweep evenly saturated. A digital medium-format body with a 28 mm lens works from hip height at f/11 and 1/125 s, so boots and wingtips stay sharp and a swinging lace freezes.
Clothes, place and when to pick it
haloshot dresses women and men differently for this cover: women get a cropped quilted acid-lime jacket, ultra-wide pale denim and white platform boots, men a quilted lime vest over cobalt waffle knit with wide jeans and high-tops. Frosted pink acrylic wings and a tinted visor complete both. Shot in a pink studio cove, it suits album art or a portfolio opener with your own face.
How it works
Add three photos of yourself: face, half turn and full length. haloshot renders a free five-frame preview of Wing Flash with your face. Pick the frames you like and keep them in 4:5 HD.
How to shoot ring flash fashion with a shadow halo
The ring fires from around the lens, so light and lens share one axis: a flat face, a ring in each eye, a thin shadow outlining the body.
- Sweep hot-pink paper into a cove and light it with two strobes a stop under the ring so the halo stays dark.
- Stand the subject a meter off the paper; closer gives a thinner halo, farther a wider, softer one.
- Fit the ring to a 28 mm lens on digital medium format, set f/11 and 1/125 s, and shoot from hip height.
- Have a fabricator cut the frosted acrylic wings and bolt them to a padded harness.
Check the harness bolts between setups; rigid wings lever hard in a crouch.
Set notes by Alex But, art director · Updated
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