This practical intro to photography studio lighting equipment was really fun to make, I hope you enjoy it. There were so many things worth mentioning, I ended up dividing the video up into two separate, easy-to-digest portions. Part two will follow tomorrow (bumping the tech article back a day).
In future video lessons we’ll be studying different qualities of light and often referring to the equipment in these videos. We’ll also discuss how to translate these lessons to your natural light photography. Understanding light is the key to better photography, whether …

In episode 6 : create product photo backgrounds with no shadows and multiple colors using simple lighting equipment.
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Here are the images, a little larger, with a bit more info. It’s a challenge posting large images in a blog without linking to external sources but I think I’ve come up with a solution for that in the future. For now I hope this will do…you can download this image, uncropped at full-size if you’d like to check out the detail. Thanks, Jim T.

Below, just tungsten front …

To date I’ve been using standard 75 watt household bulbs in the clamp lights used in the DIY lighting videos. But there are tons of bulb choices out there (tungsten, halogen, fluorescent), and I’ve been getting questions about how they compare. Well, that’s something that’s hard to describe and, after all, we’re visual people. So let’s fire ‘em up and take a look. The contenders:

GE Soft White, 100 watt, (the standard household bulb), tungsten, $0.80
GE Reveal, 100 watt, (clear glass, light blue in color), tungsten but called “full spectrum”, $1.75

n:vision …

Let’s take the DIY lighting videos a step farther than in part 1: it’s time for a bigger setup and what I like to call “the mother of all stick-in-a-can videos”. You’ll know why once you watch it. I’ve realized there’s more to these pieces than setting a wooden stick in concrete and attaching diffusion material to a wooden frame, so in a few days I’ll post either a video or text on how to best make them and where to get the right materials.
Now it’s off to spend time …

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