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Grape7

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Just received this from Amazon x 2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/PhotoSEL-LS...ing-Softboxes/dp/B002I3VCGS/ref=pd_ys_iyr_img

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Get some sand bags, this type of kit is very light, no pun intended, and at some point will fall over, especially if you leave the stands like that :)
 
stumac said:
And what do you think of them
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Fine for product photography, not enough power for portraits. Even though they look very bright, the exposure meter says otherwise.
 
stumac said:
And what do you think of them
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Still to use them in anger.
Just put one up today to see how easy it was to assemble.
Turned out to be easy enough.
I was hoping to use these for portraits so I'll see how they cope next week sometime.
 
Grape7 said:
Still to use them in anger.
Just put one up today to see how easy it was to assemble.
Turned out to be easy enough.
I was hoping to use these for portraits so I'll see how they cope next week sometime.
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What were the exposure settings for the right-hand shot above Colin? My exif reader's not picking it up.
 
Grape7 said:
The pics above we're taken on my iPhone :)
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Haha that would explain it.

I have a couple of Lencarta Quad lights that I use for quick product shots, with 4x 105w bulbs each, so more than four times the light of your 1x 85w, and at 1.0m they give 1/125sec at f/5.6, ISO400. Similar kind of softbox.

That's marginal for portraits and you're going to be two stops down on that at least, so move them close, push the ISO up, use a tripod and hope your subject sits still!
 
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