{"id":8009,"date":"2006-01-28T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/hackjob-lighting\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:06","slug":"hackjob-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/hackjob-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackjob Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My workbench, all lit up…
(Click for more.)<\/center><\/p>\n

Well, one of the other things I did today was get my hacked together lighting rig (photo gallery retired)<\/em> put together and give it a try. Well, it seems to work. (The photo in my last post<\/a> was taken using it.)<\/p>\n

In the end, I have a setup which I metered (using the Photoshop Camera Raw plugin and a grey card) at 4900K, which is just great for my purposes.<\/p>\n

The setup was made using four Sunwave 30W compact fluorescent bulbs<\/a> which I’d ordered ordered from Cindy at Cloud Dome<\/a> for a pretty reasonable price. The bulbs are fairly large and well made<\/a>, and fit fairly nicely into the clip-on flood lights I purchased from Home Depot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To diffuse the light, I took four sheets of Roscolux 116 ‘Tough White Diffusion’<\/a> gel, cut them down to 12″ x 12″ squares, and clip them in front of the lamps by the corners, forming a puffed out box<\/a>. I found that if make marks 2″ in from the corners<\/a> and clip along the line formed between these points, things work out rather well. <\/p>\n

In the end I’ve got four rather workable lamps<\/a> which seem to provide some pretty even lighting. I may want another four down the line, but at a total of about $100 for all the parts needed to make this (the lamps themselves are by far the most expensive and inaccessible parts) I’ll have to hold off on this for a bit.<\/p>\n

The only other change I may make is in the size of the gels used. I think that I may be losing some light to the sides and rear of the fixture with the gels billowing out slightly as they do<\/a>. I imagine if I used 10″ squares instead, I may get more light on the work surface… Oh, and then I’d also get all four pieces needed for a project like this out of one 20″ x 24″ sheet of gel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My workbench, all lit up…(Click for more.) Well, one of the other things I did today was get my hacked together lighting rig (photo gallery retired) put together and give it a try. Well, it seems to work. (The photo in my last post was taken using it.) In the end, I have a setup\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-8009","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\/8009","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=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13620,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions\/13620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}