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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Never used a soft box on a tungsten light. Have seen them on fluorescent lights but those lights are diffused already and careful balancing will get it right. The problem with them is high lighting certain areas which in better end work is essential.
I use to use 1,000 and 500 watt lamps.
If you get too much white use the white balance facility.
Have used umbrellas to bounce light but it lessen the control of the light, so shoot through is the method I preferred.
Another problem of shooting in the forest is the lack of clean blue light, it's filtered through green leaves and bounces off brown leaves. Can be a bugger with film. Unless you know what filters to use. Uneven light can be used to your benefit.
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Paul, thanks. Ill try get some brighter lamps. I do have a cpl of 500watt sodiums & metal halides that I havnt tried yet. I need to buy the starter motors & housing for them. I have a 300 metal at the moment it does pump out some nice light.
The sodium is so yellow, I thought that bouncing off the back wall with the metal hal pointing on the subjects, may create a nice light
I didnt realise that about the blue being soaked up... thats why the photos change different when lightening them on PS. I do try not to change my pics by PS but just occasionally you need to brighten one.
Its great to mess about with lighting and find the difference in photos, makes the job worth it more
