small studio....what lighting requested?

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Hi i have a small studio that i do portrait sessions mainly with children and baby's, at the moment i have 2 portable flashguns with triggers ether side of my subject... i am having the problem of them being to slow, and one slower than the other, i have one Sigma and one Yongnuo. Beeing in a small studio i haven't got room for big flashguns and as I'm starting out i don't have the money eather. I was wondering if any one could advise me, Im not the best technical photographer...... iv herd of constant lighting but herd that its not the best.... ideally i need a reasonably priced flashgun thats work fast. Thank you
 
Flashguns are slow. Batteries take time to recharge when the power is higher. You set the flash to a lower power and up your ISO to compensate. This will conserver batteries and the refresh rate will be faster.
You have heard right that continuous light isn't the best but it could still be suitable for what you need./

What settings do you use and can you show us an image and we can work out what you are doing?
 
I use yougnuo 560 mkiii they have built in younguo 602 and 603 triggers I use them on 1/4 power they give me a workable f5.6 with a fast recycle as eos jd said above up the iso and down the power ide stay at 1/4 or bellow
 
Sorry for the late reply but thank you all for your help!
Usher4566 one of my problems i get is shadowing on the background if my subject is close to it sitting like in your posted image, how do you manage to avoid it?
 
Preventing shadows falling on the background can be covered by the two most common options below

1. Position the light so that its slightly above and or to the side so the shadow fall off is not direct
2. Make the light source bigger so the light is softer and move it closer to the subject

If going for the latter then flashguns are not really ideal.

You would probably be better with a studio head with a bog softbox/octabox but as you say your space is limited your hands are kind of tied.

If it helps you I use a single lencarta studio head with a 4 foot Bessel octabox as the key and a 80cm reflector as the fill which gives me the below shot
I am working in my living room with an area roughly 8ft x 12ft as my setup space

Elena texture tweaked by Stuart Pardue, on Flickr
 
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Great shot Stuart
 
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