Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Lighting

Lately, I have really enjoyed using my lighting. That's right, I said it, I got some indoor lighting. I just don't have any good big windows to shoot pictures in my house so I'm always spending countless hours on Photoshop adjusting the lighting on ALL my pictures.

I was walking in the mall and walked past Ritz Camera. In the window, they had a display of 3 lights with 2 umbrellas. You just plug them in and leave them on. So you don't have to time them with your camera or anything and the umbrella's make the light softer. I really like them. They are from Smith Victor and I can't remember if it was $150 or $200 for the set of 3 with the umbrella's.

It has been so great to have them. If I do want to touch up the pictures, I can run a "batch" on photoshop and retouch them all at once because they all have the exact same lighting. I highly recommend them. You can also get a soft box later on or something of that nature if you want to go bigger.

3 comments:

Claudia and Ron said...

Hooray! That is so awesome that you finally got your lights. One more step to being a world famous photographer!

Claudia and Ron said...

How do you run a batch?

Claudia and Ron said...

Obviously I'm reading these backwards. I've played with Actions a little in some classes but haven't practiced with them.