LED Lights for Small Home Studio

I'm a serious amateur photographer with an interest in photographing art (primarily oil paintings) in art galleries in the US and Europe. It is important to me that my images, which are both printed and used in PowerPoint slide presentations, show the true colors as painted by the artist. I have the requisite tools to calibrate my screens and art-quality printer. However, I am concerned about the lighting in my small home studio. My studio is a second bedroom with a white ceiling and light beige walls. There is a south-facing window with a translucent shade that remains down. All lighting comes from lamps placed strategically so as not to have direct light on my monitors. Each has a tapered (empire-style) white shade that illuminates the ceiling. 

The light at the workstation appears quite uniform, but I do not have the capability to measure this. The light bulbs are standard hardware store LED lamps. 5000K, 2200 to 2400 lumens I have been reading your literature, and it would appear that I am using inappropriate bulbs for my application. I would greatly appreciate your recommendations for A19 bulbs that would be better suited to my needs.

Based on the details provided, we would likely recommend our 5000K NorthLux 95 CRI E26 A19 LED Bulb for Art & Studio. These products are available in the most common color temperatures for photography and artwork creation (5000K and 6500K) and offer flicker-free output with a high CRI of 95+.

That being said, it does appear that they are only able to offer 800 lumens compared to the 2200 to 2400 lumens of the existing lightbulbs. As such, in the event that they fit your fixtures, we might recommend the 5000K CENTRIC DAYLIGHT Full Spectrum Flicker-Free A21 15W LED Bulb.

​The A21 bulb has slightly larger dimensions than the aforementioned A19 bulbs, though it is also able to provide the same high CRI of 95+ along with doubled output at 1600 lumens.

In the event that you would like to directly compare these options in your home studio, please feel free to take advantage of our 30-day return policy if any of the items wind up being unneeded. We will gladly provide prepaid return labels upon request.

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Art studio lightingA19 Bulbs (60 watt equivalent)Color matchingD50 (printing, digitizing)

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