Photography Lighting: Flash Bulbs

Video Transcript

"Hello, this is Mark Bowers from bowersphotography.com in Utah and we'd like to talk about bulbs you use in photography. There's some flashbulbs that are attached to flash heads. Lots of different sizes and kinds but they, but they fit your flash heads. These are incandescent bulbs. They're spotlight or a floodlight bulb. They're really nice for hair lights and lighting on accents around people. We have these little tiny spotlights. They're, you find them for hanging in front of picture frames, but they're also really nice for photo effects. It has a very sharp, hard light. This is a daylight fluorescent bulb and you can find these at the hardware stores. You typically want to screw these in with a reflector and it increases the brightness out of these. These are really not very expensive out of the hardware store and they make beautiful lights for people. We've got your standard two bulbs. This is frosted. It has a little bit softer look. This is clear for a little sharper look. The filament gives a real sharp highlight and shadow on your photography. There was a recent movie out where they used certain lighting on an Elf Queen and the person who did the light took a big ball of Christmas lights and hung them in front of her face to get this Urethral light around her face with all sorts of sparkles in her eyes. So using different kinds of lights gives you different kinds of effects. Try all the different things to see what you like the best."