Lights

mercphoto

I know little about indoor photography. I shoot nearly always outdoors in good sun. But I know indoor shots often benefit from two bright light sources properly placed to add light and counter shadows.

Question is, do those new "natual light" light bulbs produce a white enough light to do photography by? I also notice that professional floods are often very high wattage, like 500W, compared to a 120W household bulb. If it helps matters any, the indoor subject will be small pieces of blown glass and in a white-box.

Thanks, Bill

dkapp

mercphoto wrote:

I know little about indoor photography. I shoot nearly always outdoors in good sun. But I know indoor shots often benefit from two bright light sources properly placed to add light and counter shadows.

Question is, do those new "natual light" light bulbs produce a white enough light to do photography by? I also notice that professional floods are often very high wattage, like 500W, compared to a 120W household bulb. If it helps matters any, the indoor subject will be small pieces of blown glass and in a white-box.

Thanks, Bill

I assume you will use a manual WB to help with the bulbs almost white light. I think the the professional floods are designed to cover a larger area for portrait work where you will not need that much light for your blown glass. I've not done any inside studio work, this is just what I understand from my reading.

Hope it helps.
Dave

mercphoto

Lighting

dkapp wrote:

I assume you will use a manual WB to help with the bulbs almost white light. I think the the professional floods are designed to cover a larger area for portrait work where you will not need that much light for your blown glass. I've not done any inside studio work, this is just what I understand from my reading.

Hope it helps.
Dave

Yes, will use manual WB via a grey card. My local shop also said floods are over-kill, as you suggested. Will go with multiple small-wattage bulbs. Wondering if a diffused light from directly underneath would be useful?