I need a light for discrete painting, possibly for indoors, but mostly for night time plein air.
I have decided between two models I can get locally. They both have adjustment for colour temperature, and brightness. The cheaper/smaller model only adjusts to 3 color temp from cool, natural, and warm, A range from 3000, 400, and 6500 K. I seem to recall Mark saying he wanted 5000-5500.
One well known outdoor painter said he preferred slightly blue light at night, so maybe 4K would be OK. Just wondering whether I should splash out for the more expensive light that has infinite adjustment, I would anyway, were it not for the fact it is a little large and heavy. Otherwise it is really nice. But is 4000K a deal breaker?
They have different "clamps" but that is OK, I expect to have to adapt those.
I would also be interested if you got similar lights for computer work. I would be interested if the light range is really low to POW. I figure at night outside I would need fairly low light.
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I decided to not overthink the color temperature of the light because no one is going to know what it is that I saw anyway. It give me a good idea of what I am mixing and what the painting is going to look like on the wall. There are a "white" LED and the brightness is adjustable. The colors in my paintings look like what I remember from the scene. Most nocturne painters "push" their colors anyway.
Yes, I definitely have to turn the light off and let my eyes adjust to the lighting of my scene, but this isn't a big problem.
Here's a nocturne I did recently of a moonrise over Sea Island, Georgia. The view was across a marsh and it was pitch black except for the moonlight. So fairly extreme difference.