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How to build a food photography light stand

Step 4Arrange bulbs and power it up

Arrange bulbs and power it up
I have three types of light bulbs in it right now: 1 60-watt incandescent, 2 14-watt day-light CFLs, and 2 14-watt bright-white CFLs. There were also soft white CFLs available. To my eye, it appears that day-light = more blue, bright-white = white, soft-white = more red/yellow, incandescent = yellow, halogen = very red and yellow.

On this first pass, I aimed more for the white / blue end of the spectrum knowing my halogen-lit pictures always turn out too red/yellow and have to be color corrected before they get posted to Instructables.
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Eric J. Wilhelm is the founder of Instructables. He has a Ph.D. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering. Eric believes in making technology accessible through understanding, and strives to inspire others ...
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