What lighting in my bedroom should I use to use along with a soft box? Photography.?
Hi,
I’m planning to getting a 50 x 50 cm soft box with a 50 W (250W Equivalent) 5400K 220V Daylight Bulbs. I have a Canon 550D (Rebel T2) camera and I will be taking head shots most of the time in a small studio.
My question to you is: Would a soft box with those statistics be efficient enough for head to shoulder shots? I have read somewhere that they are not very good as the wattage’s are not what they claim to be.
My second question is: What type of lighting would I need to buy for my (studio room) e.g 40 watt fluorescent bulb or 50 watt daylight bulb..
I’m new to the photography field and have only recently learned to use my camera so i am a newbie.
I would appreciate any of your help you could give me.
Thank you very much in advance.
I would forget continuous lighting & go with flash – far easier to use and you can vary the flash/ambient mix (which you can’t do with continuous lights).
Seeing as you are new to off camera lighting, I suggest you read the Strobist blog;
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html
Work through the Lighting 101 & 102 Archives for lighting tips.
Small speedlights would be fine in a studio – something manually controllable like the YN560 (£60) and a set of radio triggers like RF602′s (£27). You can get light stands & softboxes to go with these & the output will be far superior to a continuous light.
For portraiture you also want a quality lens – something like a 50mm f1.8 for example.
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