Indoor lighting for pictures

fibbi

I occasionally upload some food picture to my blog but the picture never looks as good. And I was told that I should have taken the picture with natural lighting but my kitchen never gets enough of that. After some searching, seems like this product will do the trick: http://www.lowel.com/ego/

(from http://steamykitchen.com/266-low ... od-photography.html)

But it is not cheap... Are there any other suggestions similar to this? Or what setup do you have for taking indoor pictures?

thanks!

tiffiant

wao, loooooooooooooooooooks sexy cool

zuesel

Thanks for the tip! I can sure use that too! I have tents but haven't experiment yet. will try next time.

Catpiano

Yeah .. as SB said, few desk light ( you already hv ) will do the work ..  ( with a piece of big white paper .. as white background is easlier to control )

One issue is, you may get WRONG  white balance, however, it is a easy fix in digital world. \

You can consider to get a FLOOD LIGHT in the future too.. ^_^

chobit

Thi sample isn't as good as ricrick, it's sorry it's not the full product, but just want to give an idea.!
I love Ramen...!!!!!

chobit

It can be easily done with boune flash (Better if with LightSphere II) + 50mm f/2.5 or other similar options...!

shutterbug

You don't need that lowel box.  To start, get your self a few desk lamps (make sure they have the same colour temperature bulbs), and a few tracing paper on the lights as shoot-thrus to soften the light.  After shooting, adjust white balance in Photoshop.

ricrick

basically, what you need to do is to have your main light comes from the side. your subject will look more 3D.  then, you can use something to fill/lighten the shadow on the opposite side. you can use another light source, a reflector or simply a white cardboard will do fine

fibbi

Thanks Rickrick! Those pic are nice!!!

ricrick

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