ahzwizerd2 Loc: Willowbrook, ca

Is there a light bulb at home depot equivalent to a light I use in a make shift studio

OlPopBear Loc: Bishop, California

How can anyone answer your question, when you did not specify what type of light you are using? I suggest that you just call Home Depot and ask them.

Rick36203 Loc: Northeast Alabama

If you want a household type lightbulb that is similar to your camera flash color/white balance, they offer plenty of cfl and led bulbs in the 5000k to 6500k range on their website. Just search for "daylight" in light bulbs.

nicksr1125 Loc: Mesa, AZ

You might also check the offerings at Batteries + Bulbs if there's 1 in your area. They have a wide selection of LED bulbs in 5000K.

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

Yes.

ahzwizerd2 Loc: Willowbrook, ca

Thank you

redhogbill Loc: antelope, calif

best answer yet!!

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Aside from the grammar {bleeps} on the UHH, Yes, there are many types of Daylight balanced CFl bulbs, 5,000 to 5,500 Kelvin at Home Depot, OSH or Lowes. You may also find but for probably a bit higher price Daylight, 5,500 to 6,500 K LED bulbs. And in many Wattages. I am talking about threaded screw-in standard sized bulbs.

I have not really tried the LED ones yet, but I use one to three 5k Kelvin CFl bulbs in old style drawing table lamps, desk lamps, or shop lamps for a desk top photography "studio". That could be easily scaled up to a room-sized studio. I do not find much problem with using consumer quality bulbs instead of the massively over priced "Photography Daylight" bulbs you might buy from a photographic supplier. 5000 or 5500 or 6500 K, easily corrected (if you even see a color shift) with Ps, Lr, PSE. Since I shoot RAW, I can bring 5000K to 5500K with a tiny correction in ACR.

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

You're assuming his "make shift studio" is using daylight balanced light.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

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Years ago I assembled a make-shift studio from a few "Clip-On" lights and 150 Watt incandescent lamps. Now mind you that I was only shooting with B&W film and did not really have a need to pay attention to the "white-balance". I had three "clip-ons" and used chairs to support the lamps. This worked well.

Now days, the Daylight bulbs would be good for what you are trying to do.

How Depot does have the clip-on fixtures and there are daylight bulbs there as well. I would suggest that you shoot in RAW and adjust the W/B later in Post-Processing, as to what you deem needs to be corrected.

As far as camera settings for portrait work, if you do not have a light meter, you can file off a few test shots to see what works best. I would use manual settings and see what works... And to make the subject stand out from the rest of the "stuff" in the image - use a LOW number f-stop... 3 or Below. 2.8 would be ideal. Keep the background about 6 feet in the rear of the subject as to blur that out - which will make the face of the model stand out better.

ALSO move the light (s) around to see what works best. Usually one lamp will work. Two or more would sometimes create extra shadows that may be difficult to handle on your first shots.... ALWAYS experiment with all different f-stops and lighting positions.

JimKing Loc: Salisbury, Maryland USA

I've had good luck with 5000 degree CFL bulbs. There is another scale I didn't see mentioned. A few bulbs mention the CRI (color rendering index) 100 is perfect anything 93 or above is great.

ahzwizerd2 Loc: Willowbrook, ca

Thanks for helping

ahzwizerd2 Loc: Willowbrook, ca

Thank you for helping I have 70W 5500K 120V bulbs and wanted to know if Home Depot sold them or who sold them besides a expensive camera shop.

ahzwizerd2 Loc: Willowbrook, ca

Thanks for your help, i have 70W 5500K 120V bulbs and I just wanted to know did any other place beside an expensive camera shop sold them Home depot gets close they sell in Lumis I don't know how to convert Lumis to Kelvins

ahzwizerd2 Loc: Willowbrook, ca

Ha Ha ,ha my grammar is bad huh, unfortunately I'm a photographer and I don't have to talk.
If you were a photographer you would know this.