Photography: White Lights
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- bedenken
Looking for input from anyone with photography experience...
I am building a small white table/backdrop to photograph small items on seemless background...
Can anyone suggest some cheap, consumer level lights that would give me the most white light? Something I can pick up at home depot for cheap cheap is what I am looking for. Thanks!
- 4cY0
you mean daylight bulbs?
I used to buy some from Philips..(cheap and easy).
lemme check..
- 4cY0
http://www.bulbs.com/products/pr…
there are also other brands/tubes...
just explore that site.
g'luck.
- bedenken0
Excellent! Thank you very much!
- loaf0
you can try daylight balanced flourescent's.. cheap... you can buy some for like 8 bucks.. they are pretty fun to play with.. I add a fill flash and get some really cool effects.. or make something yourself with the electrical stuff they have there.. I made a really cool "ring light" basically a light that shines from the access of your lens.. (think fashion hipster crap) out of a circular fluorecsent and a ballast from home depot..
are you shooting digi or film???
- piotr0
ok.you have to look for fluorescent tubes. when you buy pay attention on the color temperature of the tube: on color film light with 5500 K will register as white. so ask for tubes with this temperature
- loaf0
if you are shooting digi you do not need "white" = daylight light.. you could really use anything and reset your white balance on your camera to adjust for it.. or add a filter to your lense.