Ghetto light setup

blackwaterstudio · February 7, 2005

Been messing around with some indoor setup's and a cheap ghetto light setup. Today I bought some GE Reveal 100 watt bulbs and wanted to see how they worked. Here are two of the shots I shot with it. Let me know what you think.

Settings were:
20D
f/14
ISO 100
Flash fired, Sigma super 500

Pictures of the Ghetto light setup

John Mueller · February 8, 2005

Excellent.Thanks for sharing the behind the scenes.
No matter the set-up,its the end results

DoctorIt · February 8, 2005

nothin wrong with ghetto... minus the camera equipment, what'd you spend, maybe $50 total? results look quite uniform and clean to me

blackwaterstudio · February 8, 2005

Thanks guys, I was told about these new bulbs called GE Reveal. They make a more pure white so I got to of them. They seem to work really well.

Total I belive I have around $50 in the entire setup. I did a couple more last night tell me what you think, area's I can improve in.

ian408 · February 8, 2005

Hey, I resemble that remark

Seriously, HDB's (Home Depot Bees) work pretty well. I might have to
upgrade bulbs though.

Ian

blackwaterstudio · February 8, 2005

ian408 wrote:

Hey, I resemble that remark

Seriously, HDB's (Home Depot Bees) work pretty well. I might have to
upgrade bulbs though.

Ian

HAHA, but yea check those bulbs out they work great, one word of advise though, they seem to get very hot for some reason so be careful

lynnma · February 8, 2005

ok now I'm confused.. when I did my calendar ladies last year I took a couple with "ghetto" lighting indoors and got a horrible orange cast in strange places.. (upper lip, upper arms, necks, under eyes and chins) and I was told that you can't really mix flash with regular indoor lighting.. because of precisely that.. the cast.. so I'd like to revisit that and hear some comments.. your shots look good by the way.. the back ground is very white.

I've been paranoid about lighting ever since..

blackwaterstudio · February 8, 2005

lynnma wrote:

ok now I'm confused.. when I did my calendar ladies last year I took a couple with "ghetto" lighting indoors and got a horrible orange cast in strange places.. (upper lip, upper arms, necks, under eyes and chins) and I was told that you can't really mix flash with regular indoor lighting.. because of precisely that.. the cast.. so I'd like to revisit that and hear some comments.. your shots look good by the way.. the back ground is very white. I've been paranoid about lighting ever since..

Both those were taken with the lights and the flash. The flash was bounced off the ceiling and has a Omni bounce on it so that might be why it defusses alot of the light.

I'm shooting -1 on exposure, and 0 on the flash.

DoctorIt · February 8, 2005

jdsphotography wrote:

Total I belive I have around $50 in the entire setup. I did a couple more last night tell me what you think, area's I can improve in.

I should be on the Price is Right

ian408 · February 8, 2005

DoctorIt wrote:

I should be on the Price is Right

Yeah but they don't have the toys you're good at pricing

Ian

blackwaterstudio · February 8, 2005

DoctorIt wrote:

I should be on the Price is Right

That was a pretty good gues, give or take a few dollars

imax · February 13, 2005

Hey Jeremy,

I appreciate the info on this setup. I went out today and attempted something similar and here is what happened.

The setup for e-bay for a matchbox auction

70 Chevelle SS

The Gov'ner

The background piece of material was picked up today at the local flea market. $2.00 for a 6 x 8 backdrop. No white today but plenty of other colors. Thanks for the suggestion on the lights they seem to work great for these types of shots.

blackwaterstudio · February 13, 2005

Looks good

I need to get a dark background for some shots.

David_S85 · February 13, 2005

jdsphotography wrote:

Thanks guys, I was told about these new bulbs called GE Reveal. They make a more pure white so I got to of them. They seem to work really well.

I'm not understanding the "more pure white" bit. Sounds like expensive marketing hype to me. Soft light vs. harsh light I do understand, but whatever the color temperature of the bulbs used, can't one just WB for them? As Shay Stephens once said "light is light."

blackwaterstudio · February 13, 2005

David_S85 wrote:

I'm not understanding the "more pure white" bit. Sounds like expensive marketing hype to me. Soft light vs. harsh light I do understand, but whatever the color temperature of the bulbs used, can't one just WB for them? As Shay Stephens once said "light is light."

I think what it means is the color temp is the same as daylight.

Ghetto light setup

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