Indoor lighting for photography?

I was looking for some lighting to take food photography pics indoor. I have a 500W halogen worklight but the light quality is yellow-orange. I tried to change the white balance but there isn't one for tungsten light (in case it matters, i have a nikon d3100). I was looking at the home depot website and there's a 42-watt use (200W) equivalent daylight cfl bulb that has a 6500k light appearance. Will this work, or will it be too blueish? I'm trying to get something cheap, i'm not going for high end or an investment. I just want to take nice food pics at night but i just don't have the lighting down yet (even during the day since i barely get any natural light inside my windows).

You need at least two 500 watt halogen lamps (key and fill) and maybe even some for the background

I'm surprise that you are shooting food and do not know you have to set the white balance on your camera for incandescent when shooting using the 500 watt lamps.

Forget the so called 'daylight ' lamps. You are better off using the 500 watt lamps with the correct white balance plugged in. Better shoot in RAW and the while processing those files in Lightroom, make any custom white balance settings in that program

The D3100 DOES have a tungsten white balance setting (it may be called incandescent, which is the same thing).

Alternatively shoot in raw & adjust the WB in post.

Get the white balance set then… I suggest using those worklights with bounce cards to soften the light. Clip the white bounce csrds, or foamcore, to stands and bounce the light into the card.

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