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What’s a good lux per m?

Started Nov 22, 2021 | Questions thread
Off The Mark Veteran Member • Posts: 6,934
Re: What’s a good lux per m?

WongRQ wrote:

A 60 watt light like the Aputure 60x you mentioned is NOT a particularly powerful light.

Is it? I saw the photometrics, with a mini/reflector it would be ~10000lux in 1 metre

In a real world scenario, If you want a SOFT light, I really feel that 60 watts is going to be very low. Especially a bi-color light, since they almost always have lower light output than a single color (either daylight OR tungsten, but not both) light. They usually achieve their brightest output when they are tuned somewhere between daylight color and tungsten color.

Just as with flash photography, you would want to put the light in a BIG softbox and you would want to feather the light. You can use fill light on the other side, but it might be more practical (and look better) when your key light is feathered far enough away from the subject that the center of the mean is hitting a bounce on the far side of the subject.

If you can be in a studio situation where you can control all the light, you can certainly crank up the iso and open up the aperture. But if you have any kind of window light coming in, then I would imagine the window light would be overwhelming.

If you are ok with hard light (or hard-ish light) the 60d / 60x should be fine, and the fresnel makes it a LITTLE softer at the edges.

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