Lighting with Lowel EGO

Designed with Pratt Institute design instructor, David Conroy, the Lowel EGO is a extra simple lighting solution that logically follows my Chimera and Wafer prostudio lightbox designs. This blog proposes a direct dialog between EGO designers and EGO users - including photographers, videographers, museum conservators and others.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Food questions and comments

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Hey Gary, I love your EGO blog - just read through every post. I'm a food writer and food blogger and just picked up a digital SLR fo...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

EGO, the light for SAD (Winter Blues) Intervention

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My design work for the Columbia University's Clinical Chronobiology and Winter Depression Programs under Dr. Michael Terman led to the ...
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EGO, the light for EBay product photography

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As this blog has already covered - the classic product photograph has a top light overhead and a side light near the camera. So two EGOs, o...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

EGO, the light for Video Blogging

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Tired of looking twenty years older than Noah while spouting the wisdom of the ages? Yes, it is true that video cameras are now so sensitive...
Friday, September 07, 2007

EGO, the light for Art and Craft Work and Reproduction

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Any flat art larger than a scanbed is a problem to digitize for the web or print. But with a good digital camera and the four EGOs with two...

EGO, the light for Museum Conservation

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My 200 Watt SCANDLES has done very well with museum and private conservators or art and artifacts due to high color daylight lamps that lac...
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EGO - the light for viewing Wine Clarity and Hue

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Last night I had a conversation with a winery in Oregon looking for a daylight, color critical, fluorescent SINGLE light bulb for visual exa...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Lesson 403, Jewelry - Some Easy Hints

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In the previous post you see the fourth and loose "lamp" clipped to the tripod with a piece of duffusion material attached in the ...

Lesson 402, Jewelry - Sparkles

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Jewelry can be the hardest of all photographic subjects - you have high contrasts - bright silver surfaces and dark black leathers or velvet...

Lesson 401, Jewelry - Gold, Silver

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Simple silver with gold belt buckle. First, this is were the 5500Kelvin color output makes EGO "shines". As explained in the ear...

Why is the light from EGO better than anything else?

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As the concept designer of EGO, I forget that the very special lamps used by the EGO are nearly 10 years in the making especially for digita...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Lesson 304, Still Life - Poms, Pears and a Nest

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Two more examples of two Lowel EGO setups of nonreflective still lifes. Further posts will be examples created in response to your questions...

Lesson 303, Still Life - Sticks and Stones, no Bones

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The task of the image maker is to evoke three dimensions in reality onto a two dimensional surface of media - be it onto web, print, moving ...

Lesson 302, Still Life - Coffee Pot

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Again, the rounded light quality from the single EGO clearly shows up to enhance the mirrored metal surface of the subject. Note that ALL ph...
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Lesson 301, Still Life - Wine Glass and Bottle

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As promised earlier, the "300" series would feature "art". And "art is in the eye of the beholder". We will s...

Lesson 204b, Squaring Off Flat Art

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Yes, they're right - it's all done with smoke and mirrors. OK, no smoke. The quickest way to square the camera to a piece of art is...

Lesson 204, Digitizing "Flat" Art and Paintings

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Two dimensional "flat" art such as a photographs or illustrations are probably most easily and quickly digitized with the use of a...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Lesson 203, Forensic Documents

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Here is almost all that was left of a young Rocky Mountain sheep after two mountain lions had their feast at about the 10,000 foot level thi...

Lesson 202, Making Bread, Baking Bread

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The baker or the restauranteur need good attractive images to help sell their offerings. Here are some specialty loafs of bread by Silver P...

Lesson 201, Making $$$ - EBay Ceramic

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These "200" lesson series will consider "commercial" imaging to help sell or promote a product (as opposed to portraits ...
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Lesson 105, "Key" and "Fill" Portrait

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Again we are using our two young models and our two young EGOs. "KEY/FILL" is the classic formula of portrait photographers (but ...
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Friday, June 30, 2006

Lesson 104, Blue Grass Musician

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Here are two EGOs up on books - a slight underlit portrait of our hat wearing musician, George Downing, folkie extraordinaire of Silver Plum...

Lesson 103, Male Executive (almost) Portrait

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Certainly the cheapest corporate model I know - me. This is a ONE EGO example. The need for a simple, quick and "kind" portrait w...

Lesson 102, Portraiture

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Probably the first thought to use or aquire a small broad light source is in order to make portraits or small products photographs. This is...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

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