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Lighting

The Purchase

I am attempting to take photos of pool parts for General Pool and Spa Supply to be use for the Website as well as Parts Catalogs. I am an amateur photographer at best, and as such am very limited on taking studio quality photos. I know from school at UCSD that the minimalist setup is to arrange lighting in three points around the point of interest to reduce shadows on and around the object/subject.

I first looked around for a cheap lighting system available on ‘the web’. There were none of course. Each light I stumbled upon ran about $300 dollars or more for the cheapest product. For my budget and needs I felt this was over-kill. So I ventured out to my local Home Depot to see about getting some flood lamps. To my surprise I found reasonable prices. I ended up leaving Home Depot with a $40 receipt for three 250watt Halogen flood lamps for use in outdoor construction as my lights.

The lighting I am using for the parts photos consist of 3 Construction Flood Lamps with 250watt bulbs.

The Setup

My Setup is pretty basic. Right now I have the lights setup on some books. I may purchase some cheap multipurpose tripods that I can mount the flood lamps to in the future, but for now this should suffice as most the parts are rather small.

The Verdict

But because I am going cheap (Read more…)