Isolite lets you change your lighting after the photo is taken

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THIS, if true, IS AWSOME!
 
It does not change the lighting it only changes the relative brightness. Balance, between the lights. They still have to be correctly positioned.
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
It does not change the lighting it only changes the relative brightness. Balance, between the lights. They still have to be correctly positioned.
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For a moment… I thought to turn my back on physics
and strart believing in magic! :D
 
KickStarter used to be great, encouraging creative entrepreneurs and helping them to raise cash when conventional lenders, ie banks, had turned them down, eg Peak Design in the early days. But now, too often we see half-baked ideas presented with an economy of truth that look more like cynical attempts to hoodwink the gullible.

Or, and equally cynically IMHO, it's being used by established and successful businesses simply as a cheap and risk-free way of borrowing money. Manufacturers that are more than capable of standing on their own two feet include Peak Design very recently, and MindShift bags that are a sub-brand of Think Tank. That's not what KickStarter is for.

I'll not be investing in Isolite.
 
simonbarker said:
It's using different colour gels for each light so it limits you to black and white among other issues.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/47009...ou-change-a-photo-s-lighting-after-it-s-taken
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Yes - I've been shooting mono work like this for a while. Put gels that are as spaced out as possible on the colour wheel on your lights (so if using 2 lights, opposite colours, and then one in between for a third etc) I usually use red, blue/cyan and yellow, and then magenta for a fourth. Then just dial them up and down in post. There are many ways to do this - the easiest is using the B&W panel in Lightroom (or channel mixer in PS) where you just move sliders, however most of my work is done by splitting each colour channel onto its own layer in Photoshop, with one colour channel as the base, and the others on top using the "Lighten" blend mode. Then I can dial the contribution of the layers up and down using the opacity slider, but more importantly, add masks to have each colour channel contribute more or less on different parts of the image.

This will succeed or fail on the software - and it did look effective, however I agree with Richard that there is more than a touch of the Half Bakery about that video: "encoding the light with specific frequencies" :P

Oloneo ("New Oil") Photoengine had this facility years ago btw - in colour, but of course you had to take a shot for each light source so not really suitable for people shots, and again - easy to replicate in PS using a layer for each light and the lighten blend mode.
 
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