Ceiling lights for a small room

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What would you recommend that can be swapped straight over for the main light that's on the ceiling in a small room?

I'm not a pro so don't need a thousand pound set of lights. Just something for an enthusiast photographer.
Head shots and still life are the 2 main things I'd be shooting. The room is about 12 x 10ft.
I do have a soft box and a flash head. It's just for additional lighting.
 
At any normal shutter speed, whatever 'main light' happens to be in the room will have absolutely no effect when you use flash.
 
Garry Edwards said:
At any normal shutter speed, whatever 'main light' happens to be in the room will have absolutely no effect when you use flash.
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Thanks Gary. I wouldn't have used the flash at the same time. I got a nice big window in there for natural light. It was just for a bit more brightness.
Best to put the money towards something else then :)
 
Daverkl said:
Thanks Gary. I wouldn't have used the flash at the same time. I got a nice big window in there for natural light. It was just for a bit more brightness.
Best to put the money towards something else then :)
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I've got no idea what it is you're trying to achieve, you appear to have decided on a solution and brought that as a question. What's the problem, we can probably offer some neat advice.
 
Phil V said:
I've got no idea what it is you're trying to achieve, you appear to have decided on a solution and brought that as a question. What's the problem, we can probably offer some neat advice.
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Some soft fill in light from above.
 
Daverkl said:
Some soft fill in light from above.
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If that's what you want then just bounce a 2nd flash off of the ceiling.

Using an overhead light bulb won't work in terms of power.
Call it a 100 watt lamp and assume a shutter speed of 1/125th second.
Now, taking no account whatever of losses due to heat or inefficient design, you will end up with the equivalent of a flash of just under 1 watt, which is about 1/200th of the power of a relatively low powered flash head, or somewhere near to 1/100th of the power you need.
 
Daverkl said:
Some soft fill in light from above.
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Then, what Garry said, although I'd add that a 'fill' light is best done from the camera position.

And if I was juggling 2 lights to make something interesting, I'd use on camera as fill with an off camera close by with a medium sized softbox (a 3rd party flashbender would be a cheap and easy start).
 
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