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Photography Kit
September 2nd, 2011
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 Photography Strobe flash lighting soft box monolight background stand muslin kit  US $399.00
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Question: Can someone recommend an affordable digital Photography Lighting kit?
I'm thinking of getting my girlfriend a lighting kit for christmas, for her digital photography that she's doing in college, and plans to do professionally. They have light kits at her school but she wants her own to be able to use whenever she wants, and also after she is out of school (strobe and constant at least). Is there any affordable, good quality "all in one kits" or something like that out there?
Answer: What's your budget?
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Question: What should be my next addition to photography kit?
What do you think would benefit me more in making money?
Studio Equipment[as i have none]
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a new lens[as i only have a 18-55mm kit lens]Which would you get first?
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Studio Lighting Kit
August 31st, 2011
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Question: Is this studio lighting kit...?
I am turning my spare room into a home studio, would this lighting kit be sufficient to start out with, or do you think I need something different?
http://alienbees.com/digi.html
Answer: AlienBee makes a very good product and they earned the great reputation they have.
It should almost do the basics and it's a little low powered for my taste. It should work fine under the circumstances, but you may find you want to shoot on location occassionally. I would spend the extra money and get at least one B800.
The reason that I say 'almost' do the basics, is that most lighting can be broken down to 3 lights and modifiers, though extremely good shots can be done with two lights. In fact, if you start off mastering one light, then add another, etc., you will pretty well have mastered lighting. However, three is the most flexible and convenient number of lights.
As others have mentioned, you can use a camera mounted hotshoe flash in conjunction with this kit, but it doesn't have to be mounted on the camera.
Probably the most important additions to the lights will be various modifiers, like bounces, gobos (go betweens), etc. A bounce does very nicely as a fill, freeing up a flash to use for something else. Many items can be used as bounces so it is often possible to improvise instead of buy. Bounces, gobos, snoots and most of the other strange things photographers use to modify light were all developed from things that photographers put together themselves using whatever they had available.
A white door propped up is a full length bounce. Cost? Just taking it off the hinges and putting it back up.
A white sheet is a bounce, or a shoot through diffuser. Cost, stripping the bed and making it back up, or folding it back up and putting it with the linens. White fabric outer shower curtains, same thing.
Need a silver bounce? Car window heat shields are good and aluminum foil has never gone out of style.
Some 'A' clamps will be really handy - any decent hardware store.
Some good books on lighting will really help. I can recommend:
'Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers, Christopher Grey, Amherst Media.
'The Best of Photographic Lighting - Techniques and Images for Digital Photographers, Bill Hurter, Amherst Media
'Learning to Light - A practical guide to photographic lighting for the amateur', Roger Hicks & Frances Schultz, Amphoto
'Studio Photography - Essential Skills', John Child, Focal Press
'The Lighting Cookbook', Jenni Bidner, Amphoto.
'The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography', Jenni Bidner & Eric Bean, Amphoto.
The secret to lighting is thinking about what happens to it on the way to the subject, what happens after it hits the subject, and building your lighting up, step by step. Once you have your lighting setups worked out, it's a matter of simply plugging the right subject into the right lighting. At least for portraiture. With slight variations, your lighting will be pretty much the same for every subject and lighting effect you want to use.
You will need a flash meter. An inexpensive one that does as good a job as my Gossen, which costs several times more, is the Polaris. It's even simpler to use than the Gossen.
The hot lights mentioned are an inexpesive initial alternative, but they have some non-trivial downsides.
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