{"id":105003,"date":"2018-09-04T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=105003"},"modified":"2018-08-30T15:12:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:12:19","slug":"diy-roger-deakins-ring-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/diy-roger-deakins-ring-light\/","title":{"rendered":"This DIY Roger Deakins-Style Ring Light Costs Less Than $150"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filmmaker extraordinaire Roger Deakins often uses homemade ring lights. Here’s how to take a page from his playbook and build one yourself \u2014 for cheap.<\/h2>\n

Here at PremiumBeat, we write about Roger Deakins a lot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For good reason. He’s easily one of the greatest working cinematographers, and his consistency from project to project \u2014 and the variety of styles he can pull off \u2014 is unmatched.<\/p>\n

Another of\u00a0Roger Deakins<\/a>‘s admirable qualities is how forthright he is with information and insight into his process. He has done quite a few pieces in American Cinematographer Magazine<\/a><\/em>, and what’s more, he has a website where you can hop on the forums<\/a> and just ask him about his techniques in specific scenes.<\/p>\n

As an aspiring cinematographer myself, and someone who has read just about every piece of information I can find about his techniques, one thing I’ve seen time and time again was his use of homemade ring lights featuring various tungsten light bulbs.<\/p>\n

So I decided to make one of my own. This is how I did it.<\/p>\n