[pure-silver] Re: Photographing Hands
- From: "Gene Johnson" <genej2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:31:45 -0800
Good models are tough. Besides, in the winter, they're attracted to the
warmth.
Seriously though, we have now what are known as "on-off" switches which can
be used to turn these things off when we're not actually composing,
focusing, and shooting. I stole the foot switch that we used for our
christmas lights, and I station it near the camera. My key light is an old
home movie light fixture with 4 100 watt Reveal bulbs in it. I have it set
up to go in a 48" umbrella, and I can get a comfortable f5.6 at 1/25 which
has worked fine for me and doesn't dehydrate the models overly rapidly. I
have some real photofloods, which I don't use any more after the second one
blew up, showering the set with little bits of blue glass. I'm in the middle
of making a new fixture to use 8 bulbs in 2 switchable groups of 4, and
since summer is coming, I'm thinking about making a key light with
"daylight" flourescent bulbs.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Camclicker@xxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Photographing Hands
>
>
> In a message dated 3/8/2005 11:22:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> This give me a chance to ask. I picked up a 1000Watt work light a few
weeks
> back. Actually it's 2 500Watt lamps on one stand. How do people use these
> things? The things are powerful enough to you can't look at them. Even
> bounced off the ceiling they put out a fair bit of light. Bounced off the
> back wall they are still quite bright. OTOH even with the eye torture
they
> put out they don't really put out that much light. They are good enough
to
> raise the room lighting up so I won't need too much flash power to get
all
> the way and it sure is easier to focus with the added light.
>
> So how to use these? They're way too hot to put anything close to them.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Actually Nick, you don't have 1000 Watt, you have two 500 Watt which does
> not make 1000 Watts when added together - it makes 500 Watts. The
> subject/model being photographed suffers and must learn to endure the
discomforts of the
> "Hot Lights", while your electricity bill soars.
>
> The Work Lights you have are probably not color corrected and will work
just
> fine for B/W photography but not for color.
>
> Refresh your memory of the Inverse Square Law....
>
> _http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer10/education/temp/_
> (http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer10/education/temp/)
>
> ......and have a go at it.
>
> Bruce
> Brooklyn, NY
> camclicker@xxxxxxx
>
>
>
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