 John Rhodes |
table top art lighting I am going to be shooting the art in a local gallery for web and gallery advertising purposes. The art includes pottery, jewelery, oil and watercolor two-dimensional work, and photography. Some work can be lit by natural ambient light, but most will benefit from lighting. I believe I have all the backdrops and set-up gear I will need, but no lighting as yet. I am considering the lowel Ego two-light set as well as the "table top studio" two light system. http://www.lowelego.com/LWE.portrait.html http://store.tabletopstudio-store.com/ditasttwoli.html Both use daylight balanced flourescent bulbs. I would appreciate feedback and advice from users of these and other systems for lighting art objects. John
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Mark Feldstein |
Greetings John: Before you spend any more dough on equipment, I highly recommend that you score a book or two that will teach you how to shoot artwork for reproduction. Photographing each one of those items you mentioned is essentially a subsppecialty in itself, especially jewelery and ceramics. Likewise paintings require expertise and the type of lighting you do, and what you include in the shot to aid the printer, are extremely important in order to get the color accurately reproduced. The lighting you use, particularly UV coated tubes, is significant as well. Flourescent tubes in artwork?? I'd double check that one. Natural light? Sure. Controlling the light is the issue as in all photography, right? Anyone can blast artwork, bracket exposures, say a "hail Mary" and hope for the best. Doing it well and accurately first time out is a bit trickier actually. Take it light.
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John H. Siskin |
Hi John, You will have problems with the Lowel Lights. They are continuous lights and do not have enough power to completely over come daylight. So you will be mixing two light colors. Artists do not like it when color is inaccurate. Try strobes, harder to understand easier to use. Check out used Norman 900 series equipment on Ebay, lots of power and very cheap. If you want new check out the Alien Bees from Paul C Buff. Good luck this is a tricky area of business
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