How to Use Lighting When Taking Photos

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Scott Vallance on behalf of Expert Village.com. If you would like to see more about my studio and myself you can go to vipphotographic.com. Today we are going to speak just briefly about different light sources. Almost everyone has taken photographs outside in bright sunlight; that’s a daylight balanced thing. On all types of lighting you have to coordinate the color balance of your film with the light source. Small strobes and portable strobes are also balanced for daylight so the same film that you would use for outdoor light can be used for this. In fact it is common to use both sunlight and portable strobes together. This is a studio strobe. It comes with a power pack; show a couple different kinds and lot of different manufacturers. What this is the actual power source. This plugs into the wall. All the power of this pack comes through the light head as the camera goes off and gets in sync to the camera when the shudder goes off. All the light comes through the strobe in a real short burst of light. Another type of light source is the tungsten light source which is basically the same thing you have in your houses. Just a normal household bulb. This is a Smith Victor unit. The reason you would use this instead of a normal household light is that it gives you controls on angles and also you can get snoots and modifiers for the light. That is basically it; sunlight, flash, tungsten. There is a new thing out called HMI which is using fluorescent tubes. I understand that there is daylight balanced tubes out there now. I have not tried those but apparently they are really good and I have been using normal fluorescents for black and white for a couple of years. It works really well. That’s about it for light sources. Thank you very much. "