Love the way this picture looks. Good work on the lighting.

Thanks, that's what practice and testing does for you.

Nice assortment of old stuff! I think I have that wrench, though I believe the family smudge pot is gone :/

I'm becoming a big believer in LED lighting, though the Chinese outdoor floods have a pretty dismal failure rate. Imagine.

This set up is bright, you risk eye damage looking directly at them when they are on, as to failure rate, that's why I built my own. ;)

Almost any modern LED is pretty hazardous to your eyes. I have some RGB arrays for projects, and even those are painful at half brightness.

I thought about assembling some lights, but being able to get complete, (semi)working weathertight floods for under $10 ? I can deal with failures; I just make them easy to replace :)

Having barn lights that actually light in cold weather is well worth it!

Do you have any color balance issues with leds and tintypes, do they put out uv? Specifically interested in their effects with uv reflective makeup and glasses

I chose 6500k LEDs for this project, cool white. I'm personally not convinced that UV is really needed for collodion. Consider the thickness of the glass used in most lenses and glass is a pretty good UV blocker on its own. I do know that polarized glasses, and the ones that darken under light will look like sun glasses under collodion. As for makeup, pink will give you a nice neutral gray and a light blue will simulate a nice skin tone.

Ive had issues with what seemed like makup but i think was sunscreen, people turning up looking like minstrels

beautiful image Vel...

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Wow! A smudge pot. This geezah squirrel remembers those in use during street repairs as a kit.

I like the lighting on this one. The background is very washed out, almost a watercolor wash look.

No, this is my first led project, more of a proof of concept for lighting wet plates. I went for a specific spectrum, 6500k.