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# Posted: 11 Mar 07 19:13
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Hi Evan,
It's fairly easy to create professional looking result with simple means. A plain cloth can already be used as a diffuser, but might be hazardous - fire risks and all.
Another solution is to use indirect lighting - aiming a bright spot light on a wall, bouncing it towards the subject you're shooting. For that, you can also use a sheet of white cardboard, which can also be used as backdrop, to creae a seamless transition between surface and backround
A highlight can be created from a cardboard tube / snout / cylinder, lined with aluminum foil or any other reflective material, taped to the cone of a desk lamp.
If you need multi-directional lights, and have only limited (suitable) lamps or power outlets, you can use mirrors. Mirrors are also great to use to aim a beam of light, and you can create spectacular highlights in a still life scene using small bits of mirror, reflecting the light towards a specific zone in your composition
Generally speaking, tungsten lighting can be easily used as make-shift studio lighting, but it needs to be bright, in order to keep full control of your aperture / shutterspeeds using low ISO to prevent noise. Stay away from monochromatic light sources, such as building lamps, and such - they're a disaster to work with.
With tungsten lighting, and the camera set to tungsten, you can also create great results if you have a (separate) flash (or direct sunlight) - the different light temperature can create extremely nice glows over your subject. The blue light in attached example is a flashlight in a subject lit by the (direct) sun.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
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