What type of proffesional lighting do you suggest?
Studio lighting for a photography studio. what kind of lighting do they use and what are the types and or brands that are the best?
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Almost all studios use electronic flash. A basic setup that will handle most things like portraits and many product and still life type shots would be something like the Alien Bees. They are available as kits and you can get one with 3 lights for portraits with umbrellas, lightstands and a softbox reasonably priced. With some sort of backdrop setup you’ll be able to do very nice portrait lighting. Just search under Alien Bees for their site. They have earned a very good rep.
You will see various flash outfits on e-Bay that come out of China. I don’t recommend them, though they are cheap. I won’t claim I know that they are bad or good, I don’t. As a working pro, I am very sensitive to two things: price and quality. If the quality isn’t there, I don’t care about the price. Since I don’t know anything about their quality and nobody I know has ever used them, they are something I wouldn’t recommend.
There are various other things you need, too. These are called light modifiers and come in a wide variety of types for different puposes. There are bounces, scrims, flags, gobos, bookends, grids, barndoors, snoots, light panels and filter holders.
As Antoni sagely noted, if you had all that stuff, what would you do with it? Studio lighting is one of the harder aspects of photography to master. I know, I am just getting into serious studio lighting as I move toward commercial photography. I now know why it can take hours and sometimes days to get the lighting just right.
Painters have their paint, sculpters whatever they sculpt and photographers have light and its qualities. Without understanding light in all its aspects, you won’t ever really have much of anything.
Like Antoni said, and it is great advice, learn about light and lighting. Then you will be able to think about the equipment you need to do the job. It doesn’t need to be much, if you know what your doing.
This shot is a desk lamp on the floor and two pieces of typing paper as bounce fills. One to the left and the other underneath the cup to lighten the shadow within the handle.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Vance.Lear/CoffeCup/photo?authkey=BKLmv3z2p5s#5114716988976838578
It’s not a great shot, I just wanted to see how much I could do with how little, but no aspect of the lighting is not absolutely controlled. I wouldn’t have gotten anything better if I had set up my strobes. I wouldn’t have had to lay on the floor to take the shot, but it wouldn’t have been any better.
Vance
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