Small LED lightsource with high CRI and 5500 K ?

Darrell Spreen · Jan 13, 2022

Those are great examples of what can be done. Because of the size, shape, and variable intensity, I think there are possibilities for closeup work that would probably have been much more difficult before. The color "accuracy" makes it suitable for critical work too.

I haven't had an opportunity to do more with mine, but I'm looking forward to it.

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DS

Seedeich · Jan 13, 2022

It’s easy to do close-up work with soft and even lighting with a larger lightsource.
Hard lighting with a controlled fall-off is much easier with a tiny lightsource which you can use at close distance.

To position the light, scrim and flags I use either the ‘Manfrotto 196AB-2 Single Arm 2 Section’ or a C-stand with suitable adapters and clamps.

The quality of LED lights is good enough now for critical work. And you can see immediately what you’re doing - unlike flash.

Darrell Spreen · Jan 14, 2022

This time I didn't use the Godox diffuser cap, just the small softbox, and I'm getting the results I was after. Previously, I had tried shots of this type using a 14" reflector with a diffuser sock and a grid but this worked as well (or better) and it's a much simpler set up for controlling the light.

I settled on a lower brightness setting for this. At the higher setting, I got a more contrasty result, so It's going to give me options for "product" type shots. It's a nice specialty light.

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Seedeich · Jan 14, 2022

Very nice work.

Maybe I should try to use it with a mini softbox.
I have one, but never saw a point in using it with flash.

Seedeich · Jan 15, 2022

Exploring more of what can be done with the little Godox LED light - venturing into the bathroom.

I cut a bottle of body lotion in half and used it as a snoot. It turned out that the top half gives a very nice narrow spot. Remains to be tested what influence a white, silver or black lining has.

No snoot

Half bottle snoot

Top half snoot

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tugwilson · Jan 15, 2022

Do you know about Cinefoil ? Nearly as useful as Gaffer tape.

Seedeich · Jan 15, 2022

tugwilson said:
Do you know about Cinefoil ? Nearly as useful as Gaffer tape.

Yup. I used cinefoil for the shots with the egg.
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/65826863

One can shape light with it which is difficult to do in other ways.

The idea with making a snoot from a bottle was to have a solution, which is very easily deployable.

Darrell Spreen · Jan 15, 2022

Whatever works! :-D

When the lighing is a feature in a picture, controlling the falloff becomes important. I've tried some gadgets for snoots and used a stack of edge-mounted corrugated cardboard strips once with a flashgun to get a (fairly) well-defined beam (a makeshift grid).

I like the sharply defined shadows in your samples.

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DS

Seedeich · Jan 16, 2022

I’m still exploring hard dramatic lighting with the Godox WL4B and my DIY snoot.

The tungsten coloured fill comes from a Falcon Eyes PocketLite F7 with grid.

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Darrell Spreen · Jan 17, 2022

Very creative....as with all your "recreational" photos in your gallery.

I appreciate seeing your setups. Most of the threads in this forum aren't about technique.

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Seedeich · Jan 17, 2022

Darrell Spreen said:
Very creative....as with all your "recreational" photos in your gallery.

I appreciate seeing your setups. Most of the threads in this forum aren't about technique.

Some years ago there were a lot of discussions in this forum about skills and lighting technique.

It would be nice to see more of that again.

It’s good to have a space where you can be as creative as you like. At work you better adapt to the customers, which usually are terribly conservative.

Seedeich · Jan 18, 2022

Since I also bought a tiny Fenix E01 flashlight I used it to light a macro of a shutter button.

The right side of the button is defined by the reflected light from a piece of paper attached to the lens hood.

The red background was too bright in the first attempt. A piece of parchment paper in part of the beam reduces the light to a lower level (kind of flagged with a ND gel).
The effect is not visible in the overview shot. A LED panel hoovers above the set-up to light the gadgets.

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Seedeich · Jan 19, 2022

Another forum member asked for suggestions for lighting reflective objects. A nice challenge.

I just got a second Godox WL4B and tried a set-up with two striplights. They are folded sheets of printer paper, one side lined with aluminum foil.

The left LED light is mounted at a high position to provide enough light for the top of the lid and at high output. The objects can only ‘see’ (reflect) the narrow panel of the striplights.

A small LED panel with a grid provides some extra light to the far end of the table.
The backdrop is lit from below with another small LED panel.

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