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hello, i have been meaning to post and ask this before, but what kind of light is this being used????? also is there benefits to using a bright light in a dark room???

 
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Inside the barn doors, LR, is a continuous light source (could be anything!).
From the top… possibly the same thing as one would most likely work
with similar light sources.

The brightness is in relation to the ambient light, very relative. I am sure
that the brightness is adequate for the shooting conditions.
 
redsnappa said:
The flat profile of the light's casing is the giveaway.
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That would be a good hint… but the picture is too small and too dark for me
to see the thin casing! So it is not conclusive for me.

My guess for possible LEDs is that they are cooler to work at such proximity!
… but not a must!
 
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Kodiak Qc said:
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That would be a good hint… but the picture is too small and too dark for me
to see the thin casing!
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Open the image in PS and bump the levels, you can see it quite clearly then... too low res to read the branding though! I don't recognise it myself, looks a lot thicker than my Limelight LED.
 
Kodiak Qc said:
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Why the presumption? What make you guess it could be LEDs?
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It's not a presumption. I said it looks like an LED light.

  • Why the needless bullet points in all of your posts?
 
UaeExile said:
It's not a presumption. I said it looks like an LED light.
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— presumption: —1, an act or instance of taking something to be true or…
You're right, forgive my english, "guess" would have been a better choice maybe.
 
Flashman said:
Open the image in PS and bump the levels, you can see it quite clearly then... too low res to read the branding though! I don't recognise it myself, looks a lot thicker than my Limelight LED.
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This^
Although, without the view of the case, as soon as you magnify the image you can see that it's an LED array, below the top barn door is a row of spherical lights.

That said,
Kodiak Qc said:
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The brightness is in relation to the ambient light, very relative. I am sure
that the brightness is adequate for the shooting conditions.
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is the answer to the OP's question.
 
formula400 said:
hello, i have been meaning to post and ask this before, but what kind of light is this being used????? also is there benefits to using a bright light in a dark room???
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It looks like "terrible lighting" to me. But there is an advantage to using lighting in a dark room/environment. If the setting is dark, then the only light impacting the image is the light you add... The same control can (mostly) be achieved by "overpowering" the ambient, but that can be difficult to achieve.
 
The second part of the question about the dark room, is perhaps that it was just the level of the available light in the restaurant at the time.
Generally in shooting chinaware there is little advantage to shooting in a darkened room unless reflections from other lights and objects would obscure important fine details.
 
sk66 said:
It looks like "terrible lighting" to me. But there is an advantage to using lighting in a dark room/environment. If the setting is dark, then the only light impacting the image is the light you add... The same control can (mostly) be achieved by "overpowering" the ambient, but that can be difficult to achieve.
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It's not that much brighter though, look at the other table which is exposed properly, the subject looks 1-2 stops brighter at most.
 
simonbarker said:
It's not that much brighter though, look at the other table which is exposed properly, the subject looks 1-2 stops brighter at most.
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Not really concerned with the apparent brightness... that's mitigated by the exposure. But it sure looks to be very hard/flat lighting...
 
sk66 said:
Not really concerned with the apparent brightness... that's mitigated by the exposure. But it sure looks to be very hard/flat lighting...
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That wasn't my point, you said "If the setting is dark, then the only light impacting the image is the light you add..." and I pointed out the subject doesn't appear to be brightly lit enough to rule out the ambient.
 
simonbarker said:
That wasn't my point, you said "If the setting is dark, then the only light impacting the image is the light you add..." and I pointed out the subject doesn't appear to be brightly lit enough to rule out the ambient.
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Ah... I was speaking "generally."
It's hard to say how many stops over it is since all of the white has blown out, to include most of what is in the dish... I would guess at least two stops on the dish, quite possibly more. And there's a second stronger light coming from overhead. But chances are the glassware will pick up highlights from the surrounding ambient (glassware).
 
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