Well color balanced lighting can be tough, but there are some new options out there that might be helpful. The newer compact fluorescent bulb have some color temps on them, but I wouldn't consider them that accurate. Yet a lot may depend on how much of an electrician you have available to run lines and boxes to get lights where you want them. Lots of places I have seen use some sort of track lighting. If the work changes a great deal and the lights need to change, long tracks with the different types of track lighting can give you some flexiblity. IF its gonna be there a while, you might have other options without running the costs through the roof.
Photographing in that environment is use raw, and I'd probably use a custom white balance too (even though you can deal with it later in raw if you need to) and expect to correct.
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Subject: RE: Gallery Lighting
From: lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, June 08, 2010 4:38 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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Gregory,
Take a look here: http://www.drloriv.com/advice/light.htm
Unless the work will be hung for a long time quartz is best. We need to
light very large and small 2-D, glazed or not, sculpture, and stuff in
vitrines.
Our experience with the coop gallery (going over 25 yrs now) Is to have
all one type of light. We now have mostly quartz floods and spots
mounted on hanging, positionable light fixtures. For a long time we had
a mix and it was a mess to light a show. We also got lazy and used a lot
of clip-on lights. Color balance with photographing the shows and art
was a big problem even now with digital.
There may be some new type fluorescent bulbs with reflectors made to
light pictures, etc. I am not aware of.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [SPAM] Gallery Lighting
> From: Gregory <fyrframe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, June 08, 2010 2:37 pm
> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
> <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have been tasked with looking into better lighting for our gallery. Has
> anyone any experience in lighting a gallery with both 3D and 2D artwork?
> Also, we have a large amount of glass cubes.
>
> We are trying to get more light to the artwork without simply filling the
> room with light.
>
> I would appreciate any feedback.
>
> Take care out there,
> Gregory
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> www.ebbtidegalleryofgifts.com
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