Hey guys welcome back to my Channel today I'm going to be showing you how I made this
hanging ring light.
This DIY project is easy.
It's great if you're on a budget, a college student, just starting out in Product Photography
or just starting a YouTube channel and best of all you can make this ring light for under
$30 and if you play your cards right, for under $25.
So without further ado, LET'S GO!
This is what you're going to need: Cardboard box, a wire wreath frame - mine
is 18 inches, you can go ahead and get a 12 (inch frame).
Daylight LED rope lights, zip ties - mine are 14 inches long, some aluminum foil, scissors,
a knife, marker or Sharpie, something to measure with like a measuring tape, muslin fabric
or wax paper, and a glue gun or Elmer's Glue.
First you'll need to just place your wire frame on your cardboard and draw an outline
of the wire wreath frame - the inner circle and the outer circle.
And you want to make sure that the circle wires are curving towards you.
And a good way to know this is if your Outer Circle is flush against your cardboard.
Next I use a knife to cut along the outline of the Inner Circle.
At this point I wasn't really sure what direction I would go.
You've probably seen other tutorials that cut out an entire ring, but I think I'm going
to go with something different so at this point I am only going to cut out the inner
circle of my cardboard.
Next I use the knife to clean up edges on the inner circle and the outer edges of the
cardboard.
This is entirely optional and if you want a ring-shaped backing for your light you can
go ahead and cut the ring out at this point.
Next I move on to my wire wreath and my rope lights.
And got my zip ties and just started to arrange my rope lights from the inside of a wire frame.
And I made sure that the end I was not going to attach to the outlet was what I started
with.
I am just using the zip ties to secure the rope light to the wire frame working from
the inner ring to the outer ring.
And I'm also using those wires that cross all the rings to help secure it as well.
I am also not tying the zip ties too tight because I don't want them to damage the lights.
As you can see I'm securing the zip ties and also using the wires that run perpendicular
to the rings to kind of anchor the zip ties as I secure the ropelight.
So here you can see how I just graduate to the next ring and securing the rope light
with the zip ties.
Notice that I have the zip ties all facing inward.
I just figured it would be easier to deal with cutting them and working with the zip
ties to keep them going in one direction and again like I said before, make sure that your
rings are curving out two words you from the wire wreath.
Once you get a hang of this part of the process you will get into a groove and it will go
smoothly, but it does take some time so you have to be patient.
All in all I would say that this entire project probably will take you between an hour and
an hour and a half maybe less if you are a bit more prepared and organized than I was.
And just remember you want the zip ties to secure the LED lights but you don't want to
make them too tight that they run the risk of damaging your LED bulbs.
So at this point you want to go ahead and just cut your zip ties.
I actually tried using the scissors but the spring back from it was just really painful
on my hands so I resorted to an old jewelry pliers and that got the job done much easier
for me.
Once I am done securing all my zip ties, I cut the ends off and just noticed that the
end of the rope lights that I am going to connect to the plug is hanging off slightly,
and you're not secured completely to the wire frame.
So my clever little mind had an idea and I decided not to do what I've seen other tutorials
do by cutting the cardboard ring out, and I was just going to work with what I had here
with just the inner circle cut out of the ring.
So next what I did was get some foil and just secure it to the cardboard by using some you
know by just laying down some lines of hot glue and laying the least reflective side
on to the glue.
Or have the most reflective side of the foil facing me.
And since nobody's really going to be seeing the back of this thing, I wasn't really too
concerned with making the back a certain way.
I just decided to cut the foil to just make it a little bit more flush against the curve
of the Inner Circle.
But that was really about it, and I just continued until the entire cardboard was covered in
foil.
Except for the strip at the top because I have a little idea for up there.
And here I am just making sure that the edge of the foil is secured at the back because
when I leave the muslin on it later I just want to make sure that it has a good footing
to secure it self to.
In hindsight I really would have cut that piece off the top, or made it shorter because
my goal is to make this ring light hangable, which it is and you'll see at the end.
But because of the length of the top piece it made it a little bit too long.
So here I am just putting a hole in the top where I will be putting a zip tie through
to secure the ring to the cardboard.
So here I am hot gluing another strip of cardboard to the top part of this contraption.
I did this to reinforce the strength of this top piece because I knew if I wanted to have
this DIY ring light hanging I would need to make where I'd be hanging it from stronger
so that the cardboard wouldn't eventually give way.
So next I started to secure the the wire wreath by sliding the zip ties between the rope light
and the wire frame, and securing it to the cardboard.
You're just going to see me do that a couple times - Top bottom left and right, just to
make sure that the ring light is stable.
So I made sure to go back and double up on the zip ties in the areas that I had secured
it to the cardboard.
Left, right, and the bottom.
So once you get all your zip ties secured, you could actually go ahead and just plug
your ring light in and just stop right here.
You'd have a pretty decent DIY ring light situation going on, but because I want this
to hang and I want it to diffuse the light more effectively I am going to take it a little
bit further.
So to sort out my hanging situation I go ahead and take my measuring tape and measure a few
inches in and make these marks even.
And then I go ahead and just punch some holes with my scissors, because what I am going
to do is take some zip ties and run them through these holes so that I can make this ring light
hangable.
But like I said in hindsight I would have made this part of my life shorter so that
it could hang a little bit higher.
I think part of that problem was that my wreath is 18 inches long as opposed to 12.
If I had a 12-inch wreath I think I would be set because this wouldn't be so long.
And any case if you do happen to try this and you do have a 12-inch Reece you should
be good to go.
There is my hanging contraption.
So This is actually a pretty neat idea if you are going to put a hook on your wall and
hang this from there, or put this on the back of your door for your filming, etc.
Yeah this works pretty good for that.
If you do decide to just go for the ring, you can probably just use zip ties and attach
them around your ring once everything is finished putting together and hang it from a hanger.
So no I'm just measuring out the muslin cloth and getting it situated so that I can cut
the right size off to cover the light.
I bought two yards and this is going to use just under one yard.
You don't necessarily need the measuring tape here for this because you can just place your
fabric on top and average out the size of fabric that you'll need.
But if you want to be a little bit more meticulous you can definitely use your measuring tape
to get this together.
I just went through and made sure to glue all the edges down up the fabric, and in the
process just secure any of the foil that wasn't glued down properly prior to this.
So at the bottom where I have the piece that connects to the plug I am just going to snip
the fabric a little bit and just try to finagle it and work it around so that that piece is
exposed so that it can connect to the wire that plugs into the outlet.
And here I'm just cleaning up the edge at the top on snipping off the extra fabric so
that I can glue it down and finish this off.
So the next thing I'm going to do is flip it over, and you just make a snip in the center
of the fabric so that I can cut the muslin cloth the fabric into pieces so that I can
have them glued to the back and just form like a snug cover over the lights.
So you just want to cut them almost like slices of a pie.
It doesn't really matter what shape they take, you just have to make sure you make them small
enough so that when you blew them they don't look baggy from the front and they just form
a nice snug cover like I mentioned before.
Once you get done securing and gluing down these pieces you just want to snip off any
extra bits of the fabric aren't glued down.
That's it!
Your DIY ring light is ready to go!
Don't leave just yet because next I'll be telling you what changes or different methods
you can use to get a better result for your hanging DIY ring light.
So I just wanted to show you what my results were with my DIY ring light.
This is what it looks like without the ring light.
Obviously this is the light off.
This is with the ring light.
This kind of balances out the orange tone of the regular lights in my house and I know
that when it is daylight out once I go into another area because I don't get any light
in my bathroom at all, but once I go into another area I should have better results
with it.
If you are into product photography like jewelry this should add, if you are able to rig it
up, this should help with the lighting.
So I'm just going to show you what it looks like with the lights off above and just the
ring later on.
And here you have it.
I think this is a pretty good result.
No you can definitely, like I said, go ahead and use wax paper like you've seen and other
tutorials.
I'll show you right now why what my thoughts are on what I have so far and what I would
change.
I just have the hanger and the zip ties and yeah.
So this piece here because it hangs so long and it's kind of below my face I actually
have to come down this way to see to be in the middle of it.
I would shorten that but I also realize that it is because of the fact.
this is an 18 inch wire frame.
So if you find a 12 inch frame you will be much better off in terms of the size and being
able because 12 inch wire frame would basically be like the inside of this right here.
So it'll be that small and if it were on this it would be higher anyway.
I don't know if that makes sense.
So for me another option that you have is actually putting the zip ties instead of having
this piece up here you can put the zip ties right here and to just have them at all four
corners so that you can rig it up however you want so that this piece that attaches
to your cord that plugs into the wall can be put on whichever side is closest to the
outlet or is more suitable for running your wire.
Or if you wanted to have it your zip ties actually attached around here, so if you didn't
have all this, and you just had the square, or you just did the ring, you could put zip
ties around the ring itself, kinda like how I have them wiring through here.
But you can put them around here and then have the zip ties that you put around here
be what you are going to suspend it from.
So the good thing about using the zip ties is that if you have like hooks over your door
you can actually just hook them onto the hooks and hang them from there.
So guys I hope you found this tutorial helpful.
If you did please give it a thumbs up!
Let me know in the comments if you're going to try it.
Let me know if you're going to rig it up differently from the other ring lights you've seen, or
what I've done here.
If you find any other hacks for making it hangable or suspendable
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