lighting setup for internal shots of hospital department

I am looking at doing some internal shots of a NeoNatal ITU I designed but I am unsure what would be the best lighting setup (budget of say £200-£300)

Any advice would be much appreciated

Thanks

Andy

been having a look on Ebay and wondered if this sort of setup would be ok to use

http://http://cgi.ebay​.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl​l?ViewItem&item=170509​057654&ssPageName=STRK​:MEWAX:IT

Cheers

The required lighting depends on what sort of shots you intend to make and what sort of lighting there is in the area already.

What is the existing lighting type in the area? If it is fluorescent lighting and especially if it's fluorescent lighting which is being operated at power line frequency (probably 50Hz in GB), you may not want to mix other lighting types with it.

For lighting large areas, a single flash unit will be relatively useless. Adding a little extra light of the same type that is already in the area could help to illuminate any darker spots.

If you are using fluorescent lighting that has ballasts operating at the power line frequency, you want to limit the shutter speeds to those that include one or more half-cycles of the power. In other words, for 50Hz power you should use 1/100, 1/50, 1/25, or other slower shutter speeds in the same sequence. If you try to use faster shutter speeds, you will find that you have varying illumination intensity and color from shot to shot and possibly even within a single shot. A tripod would be a critically important tool if you need to use slow shutter speeds.

SkipD,
Thanks for that. so if I understand correctly if the flourescants are on then i should only suppliment them with additional flourescent lights? so from that i assume that strobe lighting is not suitable?
also that the speed needs to match those you have identified or slower.
I am going to be using a tripod
thanks for you help
Andy

You could use flash to add light, but then you'd need to gel it to mach white balance.
(greenish gel)

If there's also tungsten and daylight in the scene, things get interesting

slartibardfast wrote in post #10649625
SkipD,
Thanks for that. so if I understand correctly if the flourescants are on then i should only suppliment them with additional flourescent lights? so from that i assume that strobe lighting is not suitable?
also that the speed needs to match those you have identified or slower.
I am going to be using a tripod
thanks for you help
Andy

You could set it up so the flashes/strobes are providing ALL the illumination. Then it doesn't matter what temperature the ambient lights are.

slartibardfast wrote in post #10649625
SkipD,
Thanks for that. so if I understand correctly if the flourescants are on then i should only suppliment them with additional flourescent lights? so from that i assume that strobe lighting is not suitable?
also that the speed needs to match those you have identified or slower.
I am going to be using a tripod

Andy, the point is that you don't want to be mixing light type sources (daylight or flash, tungsten, fluorescent, and a few others) in the same scene. Unless you can afford to light the whole scene with flash - overpowering the ambient fluorescent lighting - then you should probably try to do the job with the ambient lighting (possibly supplemented with a bit more of the same type of lighting). A sturdy tripod would be ideal for a project like this.

egordon99 wrote in post #10650138
You could set it up so the flashes/strobes are providing ALL the illumination. Then it doesn't matter what temperature the ambient lights are.

Unfortunately, his stated budget probably won't allow for enough flash lighting to do the whole job.

OK thanks for your help on this

Andy