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02/10/2007 10:00:43 PM · #1 |
I'm looking to buy a good quality lighting kit for table top shooting. Can anyone recommend some alternatives? Thanks for your help.
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02/10/2007 10:04:31 PM · #2 |
| tabletop shooting like product shots or tebletop shooting like still lifes? |
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02/10/2007 10:26:03 PM · #3 |
Been a lighting tech for 20 plus years for the film biz.
You can purchase great, expensive, lights or flash that are standards in the biz. Work horses that can get you beautiful results.
OR...
...You can get pretty much the same results from purchasing lights from Home Depot, Lowes, or your corner hardware store.
Do your homework. Decide what it is that you really want to do with your photography. If table top lighting is what you want to do, then anything over a 2kw is prolly too much light.
If you want to do landscapes, then prolly anything under a 5kw is not enough light.
If you want to do portraits, than prolly the 500w to 2kw is what you are after.
Think it out. Know your subject. Look at Home Depot first before you purchase that $2000 lighting kit. Remember this as well. The housing for those expensive lights are cheaper than the bulb/globe.
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02/10/2007 10:29:18 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by I Enjoy Ham:
tabletop shooting like product shots or tebletop shooting like still lifes? |
mainly plants and flowers
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02/10/2007 10:33:42 PM · #5 |
i agree fully with american horse... i use (checkout my profile) all of those product like shots were done using 2 500W worklights i got from home depot and some background oaktag. Another thing i would recomend is a flash, a nikon sb-600 should be fine and that will give you great results too.
If you want to spend the money and get a real lighting kit, there are dozens of options, for what you'll be doing i would say a light tent with a couple of hot lights, or just a couple of hot lights and softboxes will do the trick...
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02/10/2007 10:37:19 PM · #6 |
Lowel Ego might be a great place to start. It's an easy to use soft box type of set-up.
I have one light and it does a nice job for the price. You might want to spend more money on a better system but give this a look. You never know.
I used it for this shot...
Message edited by author 2007-02-10 22:44:18. |
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