Lighting for Photobooth
Gino
Hi guys, any tips on what lighting to use?
during standby mode and as the sparkbooth captures the picture?
Thanks!
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Hi guys, any tips on what lighting to use?
during standby mode and as the sparkbooth captures the picture?
Thanks!
Comments are currently closed for this discussion. You can start a new one.
2 Posted by Gino on 04 May, 2012 04:34 PM
This will be for use in a PHOTOBOOTH
Support Staff 3 Posted by john on 04 May, 2012 04:59 PM
What is your question?
4 Posted by zchurchz on 05 May, 2012 01:45 PM
these are not the droids you are looking for
5 Posted by eSportsPhoto on 05 May, 2012 10:38 PM
If you are asking how to light a photo booth, there are lots of solutions. For me, I have a flood light that is diffused through a piece of plastic that would be used in a light fixture.
6 Posted by Gino on 06 May, 2012 01:05 PM
Hi guys, any tips on what lighting to use?
during standby mode and as the sparkbooth captures the picture?
Thanks!
7 Posted by Brian on 07 May, 2012 03:06 AM
It appears there is a glitch in the forum posting...The original post did not appear until days after the follow up making it sound incoherent. It makes perfect sense now...and these are the droids..
I like fluorescent lighting for its ability to expose all skin tones and cool operating temperature. There is no such thing as standby lighting for sparkbooth. It does not utilize a flash but instead pulls a single frame from the video feed. therefore, you should light your booth the same at all times.
8 Posted by zchurchz on 07 May, 2012 01:49 PM
I agree with Brian on the CFL but you have to be carefull about color temperature with CFL's. See here http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/colour/colour-temperature.html
You want diffused white light in the 4500-6000 range to keep people from washing out (aka Conan O'brian) or looking mega-tan (aka Jersy Shore)
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9 Posted by Paul on 08 May, 2012 11:12 AM
Hi all!
Could You tell me (i am not pro photographer) if this could work well with photobooth?
http://fripers.pl/product_info.php/info/p1669_Lampa-LED-240-panel-p... (its in polish but you can scroll down to the parameters.)
It's camera attached LED light with regulation range from 3200°K to 5400°K... i would like to use to of them...
(illumination: 1m distance 1350 lux, 2m -320lux, 3m - 170 lux)
Thank You for any info!
10 Posted by zchurchz on 08 May, 2012 02:20 PM
That is a very interesting lamp. It would be nice to be able to dial in your color depending on the available ambient light.
11 Posted by jcastro89 on 10 May, 2012 09:51 AM
I use 6 32watt CFL near daylight balanced (5000k) in my booth. 2 bulbs per 10inch clamp light... I have three of them. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=220549068010902&set=a.22...
As you can see I get very good results. I do have to manually adjust my LifeCam Cinema WebCam and lock in the color temp as well as focus, brightness and contrast. This ensures that the camera isn't hunting for the focus or readjusts the brightness during a photo session.
If you have an enclosed booth I recommend going with lights that don't generate too much heat like CFL or LED.
@ pawel.lazycki Thos LED lights do look nice. The ability to dial in a color temperature will be very handy especially with an open photo booth. My biggest concerns would be that the fall off of the lights (the reduction of brightness the further away you are) seems pretty dramatic. For best results you'll have to have your customers stand 1m away from the camera. I would also be concerned about the power requirements. I didn't notice a way to plug it into a wall socket so they can be kept on throughout the duration of your photo booth gig. Hope that helped :)
12 Posted by Paul on 10 May, 2012 12:16 PM
Yes the main problem would be the loose of brightness with distance and battery charging.... but if i would solve the problem of power supply and use 2 of that lamps and let say that the bigger distance from booth will be 1,5m (my will be in two options - enclosed and stand alone) - would You recommend this solution then?
13 Posted by jcastro89 on 10 May, 2012 04:12 PM
Honestly, when I first created my photo booth I went through a lot of trial and error. At 137.50EU seems kinda steep for something that has some issues that need to be resolved.
I would suggest using or trying CFL bulbs since they are cheap and you can really gauge how much light you'll need for your booth. One of the nice things about CFL is that they come in a wide variety of color temperatures and because of the low cost you'll be able to better determine what color temp you'll need for your booth.
Keep in mind that you are lighting your booth for your camera. The better optics in your camera the less lighting you'll need.
14 Posted by Paul on 11 May, 2012 11:36 AM
Ok...I found some 144LED lamp (pretty cheap for me) ...they can be plug into wall socket.
the light flux - 1005Lm
Color temperature from 3200K to 5600K with regulation of brightness and with additional filters and its not generating too much heat.
brightness: 1m - 1400Lux 1,5- about 900Lux, 2m- 430Lux - these are max values-can be regulated.
Question: If i use 2 lamps like this ...how it will change the values above?It will increase somehow the brightness distance ?
Anyway i will try to consider using CFL bulbs but for concept of my booth the LED lamps like i showed You earlier are the best and "high tech" look design. I really cannot use big square softboxes like I see are used mostly...booth in US and my country. My booth will be smaller and more like "info kiosks" if You know what i mean. One will be used with Logtiech c910 or c920 second one with Canon rebel t3.
Thanks for all informations so far that will be helpful for sure not only for me...
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