Patent ID: 8430516

Claim:
A lighting device for photographing objects comprising: a light emitter; and a first reflecting plate having a concave shaped surface with respect to an object to be photographed, including a transmission area that transmits light emitted from the light emitter, reflecting at least a part of light transmitted through the transmission area and illuminating object to be photographed, wherein illumination light amounts as observed from the object to be photographed in a horizontal direction continuously decrease along the concave shaped surface of the first reflecting plate from the transmission area to a lowest light amount area, and continuously increase along the concave shaped surface of the first reflecting plate from the lowest light amount area to a second high light amount area, which is at the opposite side of the lowest light amount area from the side at which the transmission area is disposed, and wherein the illumination light amount at the second high light amount area is smaller than the illumination light amount at the transmission area.