I have to take pictures to "Art works" (Painting works) in a photo studio (Wich is not installed yet) In this king of work it is important to keep the color accuracy in order to obtain quality's pictures. What kind, quantity and model of affordable speedlights,flash slaves, or other similar illumination source, may I use?

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-- Jacinto Garcia (ney@codetel.net.do), July 18, 2000

Answers

You'd be better of with high intensity Tungsten lamps, for the following reasons: Incandescent lights can easily be filtered to give a daylight balance, either with gels over the lamps, or a filter on the camera lens. Flash doesn't give a full spectrum, and it's very blue biased. I haven't yet seen a flash that can match daylight exactly. You can't see the exact effect of the flash until the exposure is made. Your flat artworks aren't going to dance around on the walls, so you don't need the stopping power of flash. Tungsten is cheap, and less prone to "hot spots".

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), July 19, 2000.

I agree with pete. I'm set up to shoot artwork as he describes - tungsten with blue filters and the set up works fine. Check out LOWEL DP lighting.

-- Noel Hart (helene@mullum.com.au), July 21, 2000.