john lucas
AAW Forum Expert
I've been working on new lighting for my teaching demo's. I'm not using CFL bulbs. they are very close to daylight so many cameras will work in Auto mode so you don't have to carry the manual to find the white balance settings.
I used a 45 watt reflector lamp from ALZO http://www.alzodigital.com/online_store/cfl-reflector-light-bulb.htm
It spreads to much and is hard to control the light so I built a grid from cardboard tubes. I cut the tubes to 2" lengths. You could use toilet paper tubes but I bought some cheap wrapping paper and took the tubes out I painted them black and hot glued them together.
I put a 4 foot white cloth panel on one side and smaller one on the other side to reflect light back into the shadow side. these were just white translucent fabric and PVC pipe.
The back ground is a gray seamless paper. You could use graduated backgrounds of if you don't mind on color and now fade, poster board.
The light runs about $10 plus shipping. I picked up the light stand at the flea mkt but you can find them pretty cheap online or rig up what we call a stick in a can. Put a 1x2 in a gallon can and fill it with concrete or gravel. Then just rig up a clamping system.
The color is off very slightly so I put a 10 magenta filter on the lens. You could just color correct in photoshop but I wanted to find out exactly how much it was off. My exposure was 2 seconds at F11, ISO 200 daylight white balance.
I used a 45 watt reflector lamp from ALZO http://www.alzodigital.com/online_store/cfl-reflector-light-bulb.htm
It spreads to much and is hard to control the light so I built a grid from cardboard tubes. I cut the tubes to 2" lengths. You could use toilet paper tubes but I bought some cheap wrapping paper and took the tubes out I painted them black and hot glued them together.
I put a 4 foot white cloth panel on one side and smaller one on the other side to reflect light back into the shadow side. these were just white translucent fabric and PVC pipe.
The back ground is a gray seamless paper. You could use graduated backgrounds of if you don't mind on color and now fade, poster board.
The light runs about $10 plus shipping. I picked up the light stand at the flea mkt but you can find them pretty cheap online or rig up what we call a stick in a can. Put a 1x2 in a gallon can and fill it with concrete or gravel. Then just rig up a clamping system.
The color is off very slightly so I put a 10 magenta filter on the lens. You could just color correct in photoshop but I wanted to find out exactly how much it was off. My exposure was 2 seconds at F11, ISO 200 daylight white balance.