IronWorks wrote:
> How about a cone-type lamp fixture? Or maybe a special spotlight made
> for track
> lighting purposes or inside-cabinet fixtures?
>
> Maris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ... now I just need an
> | appropriate light source.
Good thoughts! But if it's color you must make the light the right color.
Several thoughts come to my mind. The first is to go to Gumps, window
dressing department, and ask to borrow one of the miniature adjustable
spotlights they use for dramatic lighting. They're a small versions of the
theatrical lights that these days are quite good at putting a small spot of
light on a stage (though not particularly sharp edged, with color fringing.
Used at close range, borrowing something like this might do the trick for
you.
The second is to make a snoot for your light that has say a 3 inch diameter
far end, the other end to attach to the lamp about 3 feet away. Now make a
set of 3 inch cardboard disks with several sized holes in each. Cover the
holes you don't need with tape. The resultant light "may" be small, sharp
edged, and fairly directional. Putting a second disk with a hole in it 3 or
4 inches up in the snoot would help making the column of light have
parallel sides.
Diagram:
Lamp Cardboard Snoot
Housing 2 cardboard iris How about an enlarger condenser lens
___ taped to the end of the snoot?
/ \_______________________
| | | | |
(///O () o <---- spot of light!
| |___________|____|___|_
\____/
<---- one meter ---->
Third thought... Use your condenser enlarger, a lens, and a mask on the
film plane to create the circle, or whatever shape. Diaphragm adjusts
brightness, color pack determines color of light.
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