08-09-2013, 05:35 PM
Mike, thank you!
ratled, the light in this shot comes from a 150 W HQI Metal Halide lamp with a color temperature of 5200 K. These HQI lamps are not very practical as photo lamps, because they are heavy, get very hot and need a few minutes to heat up, but the light they are emitting looks more like real sunlight than that of any other artificial lighting. HQI lamps are quite expensive, but I got mine at only 30 EUR on ebay and that was a good argument not to care too much about the downsides.
ratled, the light in this shot comes from a 150 W HQI Metal Halide lamp with a color temperature of 5200 K. These HQI lamps are not very practical as photo lamps, because they are heavy, get very hot and need a few minutes to heat up, but the light they are emitting looks more like real sunlight than that of any other artificial lighting. HQI lamps are quite expensive, but I got mine at only 30 EUR on ebay and that was a good argument not to care too much about the downsides.
Kurt