On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:03 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: > Mostly digital. All of the color work and probably a good deal of the > black and white will be done with the K100 and K10. Any film will be > black and white.
You can go with continuous or flash. >> What is your budget? >> > That's funny! <g> Seriously, we don't want to spend too much on > this. > Neither of us has ever done anything quite like this, and I doubt > we'll > be selling the end product any time soon. It's intended use is for > personal photography and as a learning exercise. A two light Alien > Bees > package is probably at the high end of what we'd like to spend. You need three lights, minimum. >> For digital some of the new continuous lights that use fluorescent >> tubes are great. Good light quality like hot lights but almost no >> heat. And WYSIWYG, unlike studio flash. >> > Since we don't have any interest in shooting color film at this point, > fluorescent lighting is looking attractive. I am concerned about > umbrellas, though. Is there any way to use an umbrella with a 12" > parabolic reflector? On the low end I'm seeing single bulb and triple > bulb lights. Any preference? You can't really use umbrellas with the fluorescent stuff, so far as I know. Too much light loss. Softboxes are much better than umbrellas, anyway. I can't help you on the low end stuff, since I haven't tried it. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
