John, I find that an important secret to making introduced light look natural is matching the ambient colour temperature. And the easiest way to do that is with a COB LED continuously variable bi-colour light. A have a couple of Amran's to do this (300C, 150C) but they are a pricey option and there are a number of pretty good less expensive choices around now, like Godox, or a less well known brand Colbor. I have two Colbor CL60's that are small and light and can be run off batteries for an hour or two.
I really like the Amran though because I can set it to 7500K CT and use it in open shade to look super natural. I shot portraits under a cherry tree on Saturday using a 24" octabox on the 300 watt Amran and you cannot easily tell from the shots that there's any added light. On Sun, Aug 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > > I noticed that a lot of my images were backlit almost to the point of > becoming silhouettes, so I set up a 75W PAR Flood Lamp in one of those > $1.98 clamp-on holders from Lowe's to give me fill at the feeder. > > I'm shooting with the K-1, K-3 and K10D; leave the tripod & lens set up > all the time & just swap bodies from time to time. Using center point > focus to set the "zone" & burst to get several frames at a time. > > I might look for a brighter flood light. The 75W was what I had laying > around. > > I want it to be lit without looking lit. > -- -bmw -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
