Wireless fluorescent light??

Anyone know how this fluorescent light is wireless?

http://500px.com/photo​/5120591

It's not wireless, the wires are hidden or cloned out.

DavidR wrote in post #15178959
It's not wireless, the wires are hidden or cloned out.

That or the shoot was done under some super high voltage transmission lines.

Do you know what kind of cables it is to set up the lights like that? obviously it has no housing and i've seen some other projects like this and you could see the cables in it but i can't seem to find where to get them

It would be a DIY type job. Remove the housing and extend the wires.

Ask the guy who shot the photo, worst thing that happens is he tells you.

katodog wrote in post #15179030
Ask the guy who shot the photo, worst thing that happens is he tells you.

Almost, the worse thing that happens is what you already know now.

I have seen these before, they are acutally strobe but they are a few hundred dollars each. You mount a speedlite inside them and use that. I dont remember the name though but they are hella expensive for that they are. I do have the broncolor light stick but that is only 18" long but that is $3000 without a power pack.

Nick

I can see a faint wire on the one near the pillow.

That light might not even be lit - possibly really good post work.
Nice pic / concept regardless.

Looking at one of the other photos it looks like he's got the socket taped to the light bulb. All you'd really have to do is strip the innards from a fixture, then tape the ends to the bulb and plug it in. IF you taped the wires to the side of the bulb, and made sure the model held the light so the wires were behind the bulb you'd never see them.

In this shot you can see the yellow wires n the bed. Light fixtures normally have yellow and red wires, tape the red ones to the back of the bulb and clone out the yellow ones, you'd never see them...


http://500px.com/photo​/5120589

The slight rectangular look on the near end of the bulb is the socket, a simple bi-pin socket that almost disappears if you wrap it in black electrical tape. The brightness of the light would "hide" it most of the way, and since your focus isn't directly at the light you probably wouldn't notice the socket. You could even go so far as to mount the sockets to a piece of flat bar stock; it would hold the sockets more firmly so you wouldn't have to worry about them coming loose while shooting. I can take apart one of my fixtures and take some pics, so a possible solution to the question of how it's done can be seen...

There are also a few options for tubes with a socket on a single end. Coaxial tubes (One tube inside the other. arc goes down the centre tube, hits a back plate, is then allowed to arc down the outer tube, insulated by glass from the inner. And bent tubes, where a tube is bent in a big U and stuffed inside a larger diffuser to give the appearance of a single tube.

For some reason, I can't keep my mind thinking about that fluorescent tube!!