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Craig Lamere - Constant Fluorescent Lights

348 views · Published 2 February 2015 · 2:32 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: Behind the Shutter · 2015 · People & Blogs

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There are a million light sources and a million options out there today for shooters when it comes to studio and location lights. This month, I’m going to talk about one of my favorites: constant fluorescent lights. 

When I started out, I shot on the cheap, which meant using good old sunlight on location. Here in Idaho, you can’t really shoot outside between December and April, so I knew I would have to figure out a way to light inside. At that time, the only artificial light I was using was a speedlight, which I really didn’t understand other than to put it on my hot shoe and hit a button. I had not used strobes or anything else, so I started to research what I should get. I started reading and studying some of the different light sources: strobes, tungsten and fluorescent. I narrowed down my choice to either strobes or constant fluorescents. It was easy to rule out tungsten “hot lights” after learning how they could melt your modifiers and burn your skin, and because they take hours to cool down after shoots. 


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