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Interfit Photographic Stellar 500watt Tungsten Flood Light 1-Head Kit with Reflector, Bulb, 24×24 Softbox, & Light Stand, 500 Watts Total $199.00 The Stellar 3200°K Tungsten light Kit offers the power you need, with easy to use controls and is an ideal answer to low-cost studio lighting. The head is supplied complete with 8.5″ (18cm) standard reflector and bulb. Automatic, or selective white-balance using digital still or video cameras are ideally suited for tungten continuous lighting, while film cameras using daylight film require only … |
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Neewer 110CM 43 5-in-1 Collapsible Multi-Disc Light Reflector $12.98 This 5 in 1 collapsible reflector disc Comes with translucent, silver, gold, white, and black five most popular surfaces. Packs into a zip packet. Folds into 12″ carry pouch for easy to carry, durable and flexible steel spring frame insures easy spreading and closing. This reflector fits any standard reflector holders…. |
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NEEWER® 24 60*60cm Portable Professional Softbox Kit for Flash Speedlite Nikon Sb800 Sb600 Sb80DX SB28DX / Canon 580EXII 580EX 550EX 540EZ 430EXII 430EX / Pentax AF540FGZ AF360FGZ Olympus F50R F50 F36R F36 / Nissin Di866 DI622 DI466 / Sigma 530DG 500DG / Minolta 4000AF 2800AF $31.60 This is a portable and versatile softbox designed for speedlites and flashes with a hotshoe. The softbox comes standard with an adjustable L-Shaped mounting bracket which can fit practically any flash unit. By diffusing the flash lighting, the softbox creates a perfect and even lighting that allows you to capture picture-perfect shots. It will also reduce blemishes and improve skin tone contrast w… |
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Fotodiox Telescoping Reflector Holding Arm, Holds 22 to 60 reflector Disc $19.95 … |
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Surefire Spares Carrier for Lamps $17.99 For flashlight lamps WITHOUT attached reflectors, excluding Executive Series lamps. This impact-resistant, watertight polymer container provides storage for one spare lamp assembly and six 123A lithium batteries. The SC2 is a -Inchmust have-Inch item for prepared individuals. Batteries and lamp not included…. |
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Smith Victor FL750 Three Light Fluorescent Kit (165 Total Watts), with 3 – 10 Flood Lights with Stands, Fluorescent Bulbs & Mini Boom – 120V AC $479.95 The Smith Victor line of DigiLight Continuous Lights utilize high output 55-watt spiral fluorescent lamps. Each lamp is the equivalent of 250 watts of tungsten light. The FL-55 flicker-free fluorescent lamp provides true “daylight” color temeratures (5000 degree Kelvin). Ideal for digital or film, the FL-55 fluorescent produces virtually no heat and has a 10,000 hour lamp life…. |
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Interfit INT034 Replacement 28 Watt Fluorescent Lamp (Clear) $7.99 The Interfit Replacement Fluorescent Lamp 28w (120v/60Hz) spare light bulb is an essential accessory in any photography studio. Using this Electronic Energy-Saving Lamp you will save approximately 80% energy over a regular incandescent light bulb. That means this light bulb will last 8 times longer! You can also use this bulb in conjunction with other fluorescent bulbs to get a more creative effec… |
Want to buy some lights (as basic as I can get) for when I do portraits?
at people’s houses.. want to know what I would need to get some decent lighting. Already have reflectors, white/silver, backdrops, stands, etc. Also – how exactly do you sync the lights to your camera? Is there a whole setup I can by? Thanks so much.
I use a Canon 580ex II speedlight for my portrait work. Here’s an example of a photo I did with it. http://www.cappi.smugmug.com/gallery/4497220_DBqGt/1/271579941_kM3sA#271586029_Gfkc3-A-LB
I have one here at my Amazon store. http://astore.amazon.com/cappismyspacp-20 The 430 speedlite is good also at half the price.
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How to Start a Photography Business – Lighting Techniques
Lighting Techniques
- Strobes: A lot of people don’t know what strobes are. It’s basically just a giant external flash. It’s the same thing as a flash that you would have on a camera. Usually, they’re round and it has a little flashbulb that’s on it that’s in the round circle. And you can control these with an external flash sync cable and it syncs right up to your camera. They even have a wireless device that will actually trigger the external flash and trip when you hit your button to push down for when you want to take the picture. Strobes are used in the professional world that every photography studio uses. There’s all different kinds. There’s some basic ones; there’s some middle of the road; and there’s some high-end ones. In this case, you’re not going to need something that’s going to be that high-end.
- Defused light: You have different kinds of devices to create defused light. You have an umbrella. A lot of people have seen these. And there’s different ways to defuse the light. You can take the strobe and you can bounce it off of the umbrella and then shoot it back to your subject. That creates a nice soft light or you can turn the actual strobe around and shoot through the umbrella to your subject. That’s another way to create a nice soft light. My Favorite is the soft box, it’s basically a huge box just like it says and it has a white screen over it and you shoot right through it. And it usually gives a really nice light that wraps around your subject.
- Budget Lighting: You can create your own. I’ve seen this done–where you take some 2x4s and you nail them together and you take a white sheet and you stretch it over the 2x4s and then you shoot your strobe through it. And that creates your soft box. It’s basically the same thing. So those are some options for diffusing your light. Using window light can work really well, but you need a window in the room and if you’re traveling with this portable studio that I’m going to show you how to do, you might not have a window light in that room. But if you do, you just want to find a window nearest your subject and then bounce the light with a poster board on the other side or a sheet. Something white. So you can be creative with that. But something white to bounce that light from the other side. Because if you only have a window on one side of the room, then you’re going to want to fill in on the other side with a reflector or you might get lucky and have two windows on either side of the room. That would be your best scenario. And then natural light can be really, really nice. And that’s what window light is. It’s just a nice even light. If you’ve ever shot outdoors on an overcast day, you can see that the outside light is nice and even. So that’s window lighting.
- Outside Lighting: Basically, you’re just going to set everything up outside just like you would in a studio. Basically just set up your mini-studio outside. Use a poster board or a reflector to direct the light. Again, it’s almost what you see is what you get. So I would look and see where your best positioning is when you put a subject on the area where you’re going to be shooting and see if you see any shadows. And if you do, well you’ve have to move the subject because that’s the advantage with outside lighting. If you see a shadow, you get a shadow. It’s pretty easy to remove them with a few basic techniques. Just take a poster board or something white and reflect the light or bounce the light back in. If you have an external flash, you can use use a fill flash and that will fill in for shadows as well. Using your overcast skies to create a nice even soft light. Think of this as a giant soft box, so use it whenever possible. If you think it’s overcast and it looks gloomy, it’s usually your best light. Create a screen to defuse the sunlight. Now if you have a real bright sunny day and there’s no area where there’s shade, you can create a defused light source by taking the same idea I talked about with the defused light of creating your own. You can take some 2x4s and put them together or pieces of wood and stretch a piece of sheet over them. And you can either build a stand or you can have someone hold it over your subject and that creates a nice even light as well.
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So that’s your lighting, really not that complicated. And it really doesn’t have to be. But again, we just want to have the subject exposed properly, so that when we get ready to edit the subject, we’re going to have a nice even lighting to go and complement our images or our backgrounds.
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