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[Help] Lighting help please

Ok, I'm using 5000K lights and a white lightbox but everything comes out like this:


Panasonic DMC-GH2
43mm 1/500th F8 ISO800
It should be black on white, not black on grey


Can someone please look at the EXIF data and tell me what to adjust? Even if I hold one of the lights right next to the camera and I see white, I get grey.

Thanks
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For one it looks underexposed. The white background is throwing off the meter in your camera. Add some exposure compensation.

Thanks, that worked

I use two lights but I'm still teaching myself lighting

To elaborate- meters are designed to 'read' an 18% grey card, and adjust exposure so that reproduces correctly. So it reads the white, and exposes to make it that grey. For the most accurate exposure, get a grey card, and use that to meter the exposure.
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Panasonic DMC-GH2
43mm 1/500th F8 ISO800