Re: Studio lighting for 35mm and 4 X5 photography

"Stephen M. Gluck" <smgluck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> My plan for the 4 X 5 is to photograph a newly decorated great
> room in my home [with a mess of Vivitar 28x's]

That wouldn't be my choice of method.

Interiors are funny places to light if you want the light
to look 'right': natural but without deep shadows or blown
out lamps/shades and with a natural view out the window.

You need to see the effects of the light you are adding, and
for this you will need modeling lights if you want to use
strobe.

My recommendation is to use 100watt lamps in photo-reflectors.
You can see what you are doing. If you want color pictures then
the color temperature of your added light and the room lights
will be the same. With color film you will need to play with
filtration on the camera lens and/or cover the windows with
filter gels. For window gels see rosco.com.

To pull this off you may need to take multiple exposures:
one for daylight effects, one for room light effects and one
to fill shadows and add highlights.

Ansel Adams' "Artificial Light Photography" book [out of print
but available on abebooks.com or at a good library/interlibrary
loan] has a chapter on 'painting with light' where the room is
blacked-out and while the shutter is open a man walks through with
a lamp/reflector and scans the light around the room to fill
in the shadows.

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