What is available light? 25The Lowel Ego digital imaging
light is ideal for shooting tabletop
stills with digital or fi lm cameras.
It can also be used as a close-up
portrait light for stills or video.
Joe is a big fan of Australian fi lm-
maker Baz Luhrmann’s fi lms,
especially the look of Moulin
Rouge! For this portrait of Leah,
Joe placed a Lowel Ego light just
inches from her face on camera
right and barely out of camera
range. Leah is sitting in front of a
Westcott April Showers collaps-
ible background and said the light
felt “soft.” It looked good too. A
32-inch Westcott Sunlight Illumi-
nator was placed on camera left
for fi ll. Joe used a Canon EOS
20D with EF-S 60 mm Macro
lens at ISO 400. Exposure in
Program mode was 1/160 of a
second at f/4 to minimize depth of
fi eld. A -1 stop exposure compen-
sation was applied. © 2005 Joe
Farace.