 Julie Walker |
Inexpensive but portable lighting I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the average "floodlights" sold at Wal-Mart are suitable for beginning photography out of my home? I'm also wanting to use them for some minor location shooting if possible...Thanks for any and all responses in advance!
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Melissa E. Downham |
As far as I know, floodlights will not work with a camera. To begin with, the light is tungsten, and unless you use tungsten film, the photos will look orange. Also, even though floodlights look really bright, a camera might not see them as all that bright!
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Wing Wong |
Hmm... having grown up with floodlights and other light sources, I would have to agree, they aren't very bright. But then again, it depends on the effect you are looking for. The first question I have is what are you using to shoot with? Ie, are you using a digital camera or film camera? If you get one kind of floodlight and find out it isn't bright enough and want to add more, check to make sure that you get additional lights with the same kind of bulb and possibly from the same manufacturer! Otherwise, you might find that you will get weird color casts despite whitebalancing and/or using balanced film. If you decide to get floodlights, I would go to Home Depot instead of WalMart. You'll get better made floodlights and more options to boot. Good luck!
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