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EruvadhronLOE
Joined: 24 Jan 2008
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 Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:43 am Post subject: Some questions about indoor lighting? |
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| I really enjoy photography and I'm trying to improve. Right now, I'm mostly taking pictures outdoors, because I can't figure out how to best light a room indoors for photography... the few times I get good shots indoors are accidents. =)So...What's the best way to set up lighting in a room to take photos indoors? Would I need any special equipment, or could I use household objects? If special equipment is needed, what should I expect the cost to be?Also... I have a few lenses for my camera, but I can't use the flash with them - the flash coupled with a lens creates a semicircle shadow on the photo. What's a way to remedy this?Thanks in advance! |
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gryphon19117617
Joined: 25 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:07 am Post subject: Some questions about indoor lighting? |
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| you can make a simple bounce card like this:http://www.flickr.com/photos/whoisjoe/2073084988/orhttp://www.photomalaysia.com/forums/showthread.php?p=565195or use a higher iso, more sensitive ("'film" speed) |
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Futurebride
Joined: 21 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:31 am Post subject: Some questions about indoor lighting? |
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| You can start shooting indoors for very little money.Buy some $40 construction lights at your local home store like Lowes or Home Depot.hang about 4 yards of white or black cloth (from the $1 table at Wal-Mart) and then start shooting. |
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hitchnj7702
Joined: 22 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: Some questions about indoor lighting? |
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| If you are using an SLR, the simplest and best first step would be to buy a hot-shoe flash unit and do bounce flash off the walls and ceiling. The lighting will be, in general, even and well exposed throughout the image.This is an example of one of my images that used a 180mm 2.8 lens indoors with an SB-80dx flash bounced off the ceiling. Hopefully the link won't get cut off:http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5482409 |
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Gershonb
Joined: 25 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: Some questions about indoor lighting? |
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| You can take pictures indoors very easily with just the room lights and ambient light from windows.Put the camera on a tripod and shoot away. If you have steady hands, a fast lens and high ISO, you can even shoot hand-held (Cartier-Bresson did this all the time).If your subjects aren't moving they'll be lit fine. Adjust the white balance/film type to suit the lights.You might use a remote to trip the shutter (prevents jarring the camera).As for the semicircle of dark when using flash, remove any lens hoods you might be using. If there's still an issue, don't use wide angle lenses.HTHV2K1 |
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doodlebuttus
Joined: 12 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: Some questions about indoor lighting? |
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| don't use the flash built onto the camera, that thing is an annoyance more than a help most of the time... have to bite the bullet and get a good flash attachment for your camera, one with an adjustable head so you can bounce the light from the ceiling and such as that... and use a cover to soften the flash... and then there are the lights and umbrellas that i use, they are not to pricey but a pain to set up, but the shots are worth having them... also the existing lighting is o.k. to use if you set up on a tripod and use a longer shutter speed, not so good for shooting people, but great for shooting different finishes (faux work) and home decor and murals and like that. |
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jhtramadol
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
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Location: usa
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