| April 18th, 2007 12:05 PM | |
 Malu
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
Posts: 158 | Lighting equipment Help
Does anybody know how to get a very basic lighting equipment for indoors? Right now I'm not able to buy a professional one so what I use besides the built in and slave flash is one of those lamps that mechanics hang from the hood to make repairs on cars (you can laugh at me now) sometimes it is very careful but others creates many shadows, depending on the subject and the angle Im shooting from. All help will be appreciated :) |
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| April 18th, 2007 05:42 PM | |
LVE
Joined: Aug 1, 2006
Posts: 824 | I am not a good person to ask
I shoot very little with artificial lighting, but what little I have done, I have had some success with an OTT Light. The are a daylight fluorescent type bulb, and only good for small areas. I have two. Actually one of them doubles as a light for my grill! They are about $20 US |
| April 19th, 2007 08:35 PM | |
Malu
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
Posts: 158 | Thanks Cheri and Larry :)
I will look for those to see what I can find, can't wait, i'm in desperate need of better lighting :) Malu |
| April 19th, 2007 11:17 PM | |
andreyG
Joined: Sep 19, 2006
Posts: 390 | Re: Lighting equipment Help
Flashes with slaves are good you have to have screens - take some foil (could make it different colors by any spray) and make a reflector - turne the flashes off the object - and place a reflector behind them. Halogen light of any sort are almost the same, if somebody has hands - you can buy any lights and make a fixture to them, or get a fixture - and place it on ceramic surface. The best thing - is inderect light, through a reflector. Fpoto umbrellas are rediculously expencive - buy any cheap thing in a thrift store, and paint them by any metallic color. Construction halogens are very good thing - they are reliable and you can buy them for very little money in any homedepo. When you buy halogen light - any bulb can be seen on the net for it's color temperature, usually photo are different from construction - by color temperature only, but you can chit by using color filters - you can do them from translucid film from presentation package from Staples or office depo. What do you want to do? for not portrait things - you have to have a reflective box - you can use any material to build it, for people - you have to have million of reflectors that you can make from screen making kit in Home Depo - for window screens, and comnnect them to tripods, you can buy tripods for peanut on ebay or in any of thrift store. More then whot light - you have to decide where light - to have a variable sources for BG, object, and spotlight. I saw quite comprehencive schemes of studio light on the web... Good luck. |
| April 19th, 2007 11:23 PM | |
andreyG
Joined: Sep 19, 2006
Posts: 390 | Re: Lighting equipment Help
http://cgi.ebay.com/500-Watt-Portable-Halogen-work-light-Auto-Camping-Yard_W0QQitemZ320104582629QQihZ011QQcategoryZ3201QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - it is just an example. Another idea of a safe light - if you have 12 volts DC transformer - you can use automotive head light - and some of them (blue) have very good color temperature, and you can buy them on a junk yard for a peanut. |
| April 20th, 2007 10:45 AM | |
Malu
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
Posts: 158 | Thank you Andrey :)
I will look for all these ideas too. Thought it would be very expensive to start a building a good basic equipment but seems not. Will start trying to get all this things and experiment as with Cheri and Larry ideas :) |
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