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Hi all, I have a D50 and D90 and although I am still learning by reading books and articles, but I have bought a basic EX150 home studio kit, as I want to take some portraits of my family, as this kit is a basic kit, I was looking for advice from members on what other items I should buy to supplement this kit.

It comes with one umbrella and one softbox, but I have no background or reflectors, I also need advice on which hotshoe adapter I require to fire the external strobes, as the D90 does not have a pc connector.

Many thanks.
 
Hi. Sounds similar to my Elinchrom light kit. Definitely get a reflector (or make one) and for a background, I hang white sheet material from a bar. A reflective brolly is also useful. You may need a light meter. Remote triggers are available on Ebay. Its enough to start with.
 
Many thanks, I am using a spare bedroom as studio space, it's 12ft x 8.5ft, it has some furniture and an lcd tv mounted to one of the walls behind where people will sit, there is also a single glass patio door there, I was considering blackout type material mounted across the 8.5ft width, keeping the natural light out (as it would be one sided) and a white paper/material to backdrop those posing.

Does that size and set-up sound workable ?, any suggestions to improve it ?

Cheers
 
Hi. Sounds about the same size as my dining room! I'd say that the patio window would need to be blocked out. You have to take into accout that you don't want your model up against the background, so allowing a few feet for that, it doesn't give you much room to manoeuvre - but OK if you are doing waist upwards shots. I end up in the fireplace in mine! Also there's the trip hazard of the light stands, trailing cables to bear in mind.
 
Yes, it will be very tight, but hopefully with the model around 4ft from the backdrop and if i can back right up, I can get enough dof to mark any backdrop imperfections, not sure whether I will go down the paper or muslin route for my backdrop yet, plenty of stands available on evilbay though.
 
I'm considering one of those 'pop-up' backgrounds. You will need to light the background if you want it white. Otherwise it will be grey.
 
A studio with natural light is a dream - why not use it!?
 
As it's a single glass door, I thought the light from one side only on to a white backdrop, may lead to an uneven background, but I'll try it out and see how it looks.
 
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