[Jewelry making - Article 01019] - Re: [Orchid] Lighting for photographing jewelry

[Mark Fant]

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    The Quartz-Halogen lights, I have been told, are very close to 5500
    Kelvin (the same as daylight).  I have had good success (with color
    daylight film) using one or more 500 watt lights, along with a white
    paper towel (for very short periods of time) as a diffuser to
    diminish shadows.  These lights get hot, so one has to keep that in
    mind and be careful of the light housing temps, but they have
    dropped quite a bit in price from what they sold for 30 years ago. 

    Attached is a reference link where the 300 and 500 watt lamps were
    evaluated for color temperatures. 

    Hope this helps!
    Mark Fant

    [November 6, 1997 1 of 5 Quartz-Halogen Lamp Color Temperature
    Analysis Prepared by Gary Gaugler, Ph.D Optical Reflections This
    report was prepared to document ... ] 

    http://photoweb.net/pw_tech/colortemp.pdf 


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