About Real Room Lighting

Mission Statement

Lighting Recipes for Real Rooms: We deliver a portable, power‑aware, physics‑first library of repeatable lighting setups for hybrid photo–video creators, optimized for true‑to‑skin and true‑to‑product color in the small spaces where most real work happens.

Our Brand Story

Real Room Lighting was born in cramped apartments, tiny prep rooms, and on-location venues with low ceilings and limited outlets. We kept seeing a gap between glossy studio tutorials and the constraints creators face in the real world—8–9 ft ceilings, 15A circuits, noisy fans, reflective walls, and setups that must be built and torn down in minutes. So we started testing lighting the way you actually use it: in real rooms, with standardized checks for color accuracy and flicker, diverse skin‑tone scenes, and hard limits on noise, heat, and power.

Every recommendation comes with a diagrammed recipe—distances, angles, modifiers, power ratios, exposure targets, and alternatives—so you can replicate the look anywhere, across brands and bodies. We also map modular upgrade paths so your kit grows without growing messy: one compact, compatible system that covers 80% of jobs, from portraits and products to events and hybrid video.

What Makes Us Different

• Real-room validation: Every setup is tested under 8–9 ft ceilings with spill control options (grids, flags, negative fill) and ambient‑mixing guidance.
• Color confidence: We track CRI/TM‑30/SSI, tint shift, and metamerism risks, aiming for predictable grading across camera brands.
• Power‑aware planning: We design for typical 15A/120V or 10A/230V limits and verify silent, flicker‑free operation at common shutter angles.
• Speed and portability: Build/tear‑down in 10–15 minutes using modifiers and stands that fit in a backpack or carry‑on.

Our Team

We’re a small, specialist crew united by a shared obsession with controllable, repeatable light:

• The Lighting Scientist: A colorimetry nerd who translates TM‑30/SSI into practical choices and tests tint stability across dimming ranges.
• The Apartment Creator: A hybrid photo–video educator who squeezes cinematic ratios out of low ceilings, narrow rooms, and reflective walls.
• The Event/Wedding Shooter: A speed‑driven operator focused on silent, flicker‑free gear, fast setups, and consistent results in mixed light.
• The Product & Portrait Coach: A modifier strategist who tames specular highlights and maintains true‑to‑product hues with polarizers and book lights.

Together we document the exact recipe—so you can produce the same look, on demand, in your real room. Reach us anytime at [email protected] or visit realroomlighting.store.