{"id":7989,"date":"2006-01-22T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/22\/photo-lighting\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:03","slug":"photo-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/22\/photo-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the first test image from my hackjob photo lighting rig. It has been white balanced, the saturation turned up to +2, and cropped somewhat. Best I can tell, (thanks to Photoshop’s Camera Raw plugin and clicking on a grey card) the lights are putting out ~2850 light, which I’m able to compensate for, even though it’s really, really low. Also, I can’t help but think I’m blowing out the side of the bottle with the way the lights are setup right now. I think they need to be moved or I need to get a soft box or something.<\/p>\n

suggested dollar store clothes hampers, so I may try them… I might also take the bulbs back and see if I can find some hotter ones. The light off of these is just too warm by default. If you look at this uncorrected photo of my grey card<\/a> you can see just how yellow the lighting is. It’s correctable, but it seems to me that with such a drastic correction, some color range is lost. I… think that too much correction for too warm of colors decreases the range available for reds and yellows? (Must read up on this some more…)<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you are curious, this is how I have it set up for now<\/a>, although I have tried moving the lamps around to the sides of the bench, and changing the angle at which the backdrop hangs. Most importantly, I think I first need to get decent temperature bulbs, then some sort of soft box, either for the lamps or to put the object being photographed in. We’ll see…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the first test image from my hackjob photo lighting rig. It has been white balanced, the saturation turned up to +2, and cropped somewhat. Best I can tell, (thanks to Photoshop’s Camera Raw plugin and clicking on a grey card) the lights are putting out ~2850 light, which I’m able to compensate for,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13640,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions\/13640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}