Strobe or permanent

[drren]

Hi,
I like to practice studio shots when I get the opportunity, I know relise I need some lights rather than just relying on my canon430 EXii speedlite.
Any cost effective recommendations for a lighting kit, strobe or permanent lighting?
Drren

 

[HoppyUK]

Hi,
I like to practice studio shots when I get the opportunity, I know relise I need some lights rather than just relying on my canon430 EXii speedlite.
Any cost effective recommendations for a lighting kit, strobe or permanent lighting?
Drren

Need more info and budget, but if it's normal home portait stuff, you need flash and can get going from around £200 upwards. Lots of threads on this.

 

[Phil V]

The speedlight's enough of a start, get it off camera!
If you're brave, cheap wireless triggers, if you want a safety net, use a long ettl cable. Then you need a light stand and a brolly and you're off.

Once you've mastered one light, and settled into it you can add another, triggering needs serious thought at this point, as does the limits of what you'll want to do. If you're staying inside a small studio flash with a soft box and wireless triggers, or you can stick with speedlights and get something that'll act as a master in a ettl setup. You can consider ettl triggers, or stay manual.

 

[rigsby1208]

I've thought of using my speedlight off camera on a lighting stand, but how do you go about mounting it??

 

[Cactus Jack]

I used to mount my speedlight to a spare tripod using the female thread on the little plastice stand you got with the canon 430. However now started to discover the delghts of a shoot through brolly, for which I purchased a light to stand adapter (Hama) that also attaches to my spare tripod. Brollies and adapters are very cheap on the bay or Premier Ink seem good value.

 

[POAH]

Hi,
I like to practice studio shots when I get the opportunity, I know relise I need some lights rather than just relying on my canon430 EXii speedlite.
Any cost effective recommendations for a lighting kit, strobe or permanent lighting?
Drren

You'll struggle to sync your shutter to a strobe tbh.

 

[HoppyUK]

You'll struggle to sync your shutter to a strobe tbh.

Ignore. He's referring to the American spelling of flash as strobe. Not a helpful contribution :thumbsdown:

 

[POAH]

Ignore. He's referring to the American spelling of flash as strobe. Not a helpful contribution :thumbsdown:

Pretty sure flash is still spelt flash across the pond just the yanks can't use the correct term

 

[POAH]

Why not spend a few hours at a studio see how you get on with using big flash units. Buying extra speedlites is expensive.

What are you hoping to do with the extra lights over what you currently use?