Lighting 101
Intimidated by the idea of off-camera lighting?
Don't be.
We are pretty much starting from scratch, so no worries. The first posts will be about what kind of gear you will need to do the minimalist strobe thing.
When we are done having our way with your wallet (remembering that light gives you far more bang-for-the-buck than does fast glass or the latest digital camera or 300/2.8) we'll move into basic technique. And after that, we'll keep it going with periodical essays and ideas on how to improve (or refresh) your lighting ability.
When you've worked your way through the basics of designing your light kit and learning how to use it, make a point to browse some of the examples in the "On Assignment" section. Those will be updated constantly, too. So keep checking back.
You will likely have some questions along the way. Sadly, it is not possible for me to take the time to personally answer all of the one-to-one lighting questions that pop up. So try to resist asking them in the comments section. The only people reading this behind you are the people who are, well, behind you.
You will find the one-to-one knowledge bank you seek in the Strobist Group on Flickr. There, you can ask away and get the diversity of response that you need. These are the lighting grad students, so to speak. They know this stuff, and are very enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge.
But please do your part and be considerate enough to search the Flickr group threads for relevant keywords in your question first. You are probably not the first person to ask. Or the tenth. Just sayin'.
Most of all, remember to have fun and learn to make some cool light.
UPDATE, Feb. 2, 2008: For a very nice head start into Lighting 101, take a couple of mins to watch this informative little slideshow.
It is by Paul Duncan, whose site you can see here.
Lighting 101 Series
(If you start with the first one, they are linked in order to each successive lesson.)
Two Things Your Flash Needs to Have
Traveling Light
Light Stands
Super Clamps
Ball Bungees
Umbrella Stand Adapters
Synching: PC Cords and Pocket Wizards
Building a Pro PC Cord, Pt. 1
Building a Pro PC Cord, Pt. 2
Soft Light: Umbrellas
Soft Light - Wall/Ceiling Bouncing
Bare-Tube Style Lighting
Hard Light - It's Better Than You Think
Balancing Flash Intensity With Ambient, Pt 1
Balancing Flash Intensity With Ambient, Pt 2
Using Gels to Balance Light Color
Cereal Box Snoots and GoBo's
Textural Lighting for Detail Shots
Cross Lighting
Back Light as Main Light
Headshot in a Corner
Lighting for Glasses
Long-Throw Hard Light
Reverse Engineering Other Shooters' Light
Know The Flash
See The Flash
Be The Flash
Don't Let Good Light Ruin a Photo
Keep a Lighting File
Don't be.
We are pretty much starting from scratch, so no worries. The first posts will be about what kind of gear you will need to do the minimalist strobe thing.
When we are done having our way with your wallet (remembering that light gives you far more bang-for-the-buck than does fast glass or the latest digital camera or 300/2.8) we'll move into basic technique. And after that, we'll keep it going with periodical essays and ideas on how to improve (or refresh) your lighting ability.
When you've worked your way through the basics of designing your light kit and learning how to use it, make a point to browse some of the examples in the "On Assignment" section. Those will be updated constantly, too. So keep checking back.
You will likely have some questions along the way. Sadly, it is not possible for me to take the time to personally answer all of the one-to-one lighting questions that pop up. So try to resist asking them in the comments section. The only people reading this behind you are the people who are, well, behind you.
You will find the one-to-one knowledge bank you seek in the Strobist Group on Flickr. There, you can ask away and get the diversity of response that you need. These are the lighting grad students, so to speak. They know this stuff, and are very enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge.
But please do your part and be considerate enough to search the Flickr group threads for relevant keywords in your question first. You are probably not the first person to ask. Or the tenth. Just sayin'.
Most of all, remember to have fun and learn to make some cool light.
UPDATE, Feb. 2, 2008: For a very nice head start into Lighting 101, take a couple of mins to watch this informative little slideshow.
It is by Paul Duncan, whose site you can see here.
Lighting 101 Series
(If you start with the first one, they are linked in order to each successive lesson.)
Two Things Your Flash Needs to Have
Traveling Light
Light Stands
Super Clamps
Ball Bungees
Umbrella Stand Adapters
Synching: PC Cords and Pocket Wizards
Building a Pro PC Cord, Pt. 1
Building a Pro PC Cord, Pt. 2
Soft Light: Umbrellas
Soft Light - Wall/Ceiling Bouncing
Bare-Tube Style Lighting
Hard Light - It's Better Than You Think
Balancing Flash Intensity With Ambient, Pt 1
Balancing Flash Intensity With Ambient, Pt 2
Using Gels to Balance Light Color
Cereal Box Snoots and GoBo's
Textural Lighting for Detail Shots
Cross Lighting
Back Light as Main Light
Headshot in a Corner
Lighting for Glasses
Long-Throw Hard Light
Reverse Engineering Other Shooters' Light
Know The Flash
See The Flash
Be The Flash
Don't Let Good Light Ruin a Photo
Keep a Lighting File
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by David, at 8:59 PM.
88 Comments:
Thank you very much for Lighting 101. It's just what I was looking for! I was looking for a new way to shoot, without lugging around big lights. Other lighting forums I've reviewed disregard small strobes as a viable lighting tool. I'll be practising and hopefully successfully applying the techniques you teach here.
Thanks again!
Chad
Chad-
You are quite welcome. I wasted several years not knowing this stuff when I first started out. It's a real blind spot in most people's education, and it is too important to just leave to chance whether or not you pick it up.
Just wanted to leave a quick thank you, I have spent a few sleepless nights here for the past week, and then got right up in dawn experimenting. This has opened up a new dimension in my photography and really is helping me getting to that next level.
I can't imagine how many hours and thought has gone into this, thank god for people like you.
WOW what a great site for us hot shoe strobe users!I was brought to your site from photonet...and I have been pouring over the pages again and again to see if i missed anything.Thanks to my 15yr old daughters (Candice)interest in photography we have gone back to the beginning B&W T-MAX,developing our film,and a darkroom to be built in the near future.We happen to have a 2 strobes(still with boxes)Vivitar 285HV & Metz CL-45-1 that will injoy being used ! Sorry to be long winded....Anyway THANKS
Cliff & Candice
Thanks for the superb resource; this site has provided me with an understanding of lighting, something about which I was previously quite ignorant. Now all I need to do is practice :-)
*****
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I want to say thank you. I don't know how to express my gratitude. Much like chad and as a beginner i will use your site as a reference. If you ever write a book please do announce it. Your light on the go concept and easiness is incredible. I have to practice it very much. Ahh its so jaw dropping. strobes are filled with so much power, im just so glad you have taught me how to harness it and beam it well. :) Take care. Keep up the fun.
Great articles! Thank you, I didn't realize there was so much you could do with an external flash, now I'm saving for one...
=)
awsome~!!
Thank you~
What a great site! I admit to being intimidated of off-camera lighting set ups until reading L-101. Thanks for sharing your knowledge....Second, my father just gave me his SB-28 to sell, but even though I shoot Canon (and own a 580EX), I plan to keep it for off camera use. Is it possible to trigger the 580 with the SB-28?
Good idea to keep the SB-28. You'll need to slave the 580 somehow. Not knowing the pin configuration on a 580, I would defer to one of the Canon guys for a suggestion.
Post the question in the strobist discussion thread on Flickr - I am sure you'll get specific help there.
-DH
I hardly used to use flash. After reading in strobist for a few months I am even making my own macro studio.
The results are not very good so far. This is my first digital camera and having problems with metering the flash.
I think it would be great if you add another article to lighting 101 on flash metering with ambient light mix.
I use D200 with sb-28.
I am an absolute beginner to lighting and a novice to photography. I went and purchased a Rebel XTI and the EX580. My question is can I start learning about lighting on this site with just these two basic tools? or do I need all that extra gear to benefit from this wealth of information on here?
David, your blog has kept me awake many work nights in a row. I've gotten fidgety and decided that after months of reading Strobist to actually put the knowledge to practice and make the leap into Pocket Wizard-synched off-camera flash photography. The initial jump isn't too bad considering I already have continuous tungsten lighting equipment (I am an indie filmmaker) and really only need the PWs and a Nikon flash for my Canon 20D. So, I pulled the trigger tonight and I feel better having done so. It's time to get serious as a photographer and learn how to light with strobes. Thanks for clearing my head, David.
I just have to say thank you. I discovered your blog yesterday and cannot stop reading it. I already have nearly 90 feeds related to design, filmmaking, technology and photography in my feedreader, but Strobist is by far the most informative sharing of professional knowledge I have ever seen.
I purchased a SB-800 for my Nikon about a year ago and it still has more control over me that I have over it. Strobist has allayed some anxiety I had about purchasing an umbrella and requisite accessories and I am anxious to start trying out all these techniques I have read.
I look forward to joining the Flickr group and sharing my results.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I'm confused. The Lighting 101 section seems to advocate a procedure of getting a base ambient exposure for aperture and shutter speed and then dialing up/down the flash of moving its position. However, all the On Assignment postings describe doing something different, that is to say choosing a power setting for the flash, adjusting aperture until the flash looks good and then slowing the shutter until the ambient looks right. Why the different accounts?
A lot of great information here, especially for someone like me, totally unfamiliar with this thing called a "strobe" (I only have a Leica MP).
My point in bringing up Leica is only that people like me are interested in strobe work with cameras that don't have any smarts of their own, but it seems most of your on assignment examples use the histogram of a camera to get the light right.
I would love to see more writing on how to setup flash using rules of thumb and rough calculations, instead of relying on digital cameras. For e.g., I'd like to add an almost imperceptible amount of strobe light to help add a bit of pop to ambient, low light, wide-angle environmental portraiture. So I am concerned about keeping the flash from overpowering these shots.
Thanks for sharing all your great information.
Thanks for all the time and knowledge you've put into Lighting 101 !
I've learned a lot from this and I'll likely use it as a reference later on as well.
Thanks Again.
cheers,
Dean
What a fantastic site. And there was me about to invest in some of those heavy cumbersome lights that would stay in the boot. Ive read and digested, now for boot camp. Great stuff.
Harry
Whow !!!.
Lots of very usefull tips & Tricks.
A great wish ...
Was it possible to put together all the articles to one pdf file ?.
Best regards.
Jan Huniche
Hi, I learned a lot from your blog, thank you! I have a question about a trick you used a lot. you often set the camera to its high synch speed and explained to let you use the least amount of strobe possible. But I think it should let you use the least amount of ambient light, coz strobe light is constant as long as you keep shutter speed longer than the sync speed. The higher the shutter speed, the less ambient light plays a role. am i right?
Thank you for this!
Its nice to see a comprehensive post like this. Its good to get a good refresher on the tips even for professionals. Im surprised at the stuff I tend to forget about.
this is the first time I comment this site. I have been lurking for sometime. This is one of the best resources there is on the net about lighting and photography.
Gugs from www.fredmiranda.com
Thanks for maintaining this high quality blog.
Thanks for this fantastic resource of information. It has given me loads of things to think about and to pass on to my aged mother, who is just starting digital photography (don't ask) with some good results.
This site is amazing. I've recently just got rid of a set of bowens studio lights(that incidentally took up an extreme amount of storage space) with all the other garb that comes with it, backgrounds etc etc. My photography has been sort of stagnating since, but this has given me the kick i need, now i know that i was just getting too far ahead of myself with all that expensive equipment.
back to the old school i say!!
Love the 'done that and got the photo' confidence of your recommendations and great writing style. And the irony is running into your site while searching to buy monolights and (now)old school and uncool studio lighting.
Looking forward to learning more.
Aditya
http://sontagraphy.blogspot.com/
That lighting 101 video by Paul Duncan was probably the most informative seven minutes of my entire life. I learned so much from it. I knew some stuff by just reading this site a lot, but too actually see demonstrations of them and comparison shots of different light mods really made things much clearer for me. This is a must see video for anybody that is getting into off-camera lighting. David, this should be placed near the top of the site permanently. Very informative!
Hay David,
thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us. I have put together a small thanks post at my blog with a quick start guide to Strobisim. Hope many more join the moment. Thanks again.
Thanks for that great video, you must have some really good video editing software ;)
Seriously, this is a great intro. I feel much less intimidated by lighting already!
This is great! I was looking to learn about studio lighting and this is perfect!
I am setting up a home photography studio, and this is exactly what I needed. Thanks!
I am setting up a home photo studio, and this is exactly what I needed!
Thanks!
Eric
You just saved me from buying one of those studio lighting kits!
I already have two small flashes. I had no idea hey were this useful as studio lighting equipment.
Great tutorial. You will see a lot of links to this article from other forums.
At my next wedding I plan on bringing a mono light to help light up the background a bit more then a strobe. I don't have to worry about batteries that way and they can give off a lot of light. For everything else, and especially outdoor work, strobes are hard to beat.
secretsofphotography.blogspot.com/
Cool! I can use my Canon flash with a Pocket Wizard! (I have three flashes, actually: a 580 Ex, and 540 Ex and a 430ex.)
I was thinking about the new elinchrom skyports, or maybe a gadget infinity. But pocketwizard it is!
I've just discovered your blog. Thanks a lot for these tips and tutorials. Helps me a lot
Great tutorial. Thanks.
One thing... please turn the background music down as it is hard for me to hear your voice.
:)
David - ok, I'm officially a convert! I have a D80 and an SB600 and like so many others, I blindly flipped through the manual, slapped everything on auto and snapped away with "less than optimal" results. After finding the blog, I just spent an hour playing with my camera, flash and a poor abused little wooden box that has now been photographed in a multitude of flash settings.
Wow! Thank you so much. After reading the blog, understanding 1) what I was trying to accomplish in my playtime and 2) what the heck the settings could do, it really was an hour well spent. Now I can't wait for my next opportunity to use a flash!
I love you man. Don't let those nasty peeps put us down. some people still don't believe in these methods but we know the truth. that's all that matters. Sorry you have to deal wit harsh nay sayers, but they will always exist. I guess we could just ignore them. They probably haven't tried half this stuff anyway. Thank you for the lesson. I just don't have the right words to share my gratitude for this information.
Thanks for putting this up for folks like me, Mr. Hobby. This blog has helped me understand things that I have noticed in other's photography,but was never able to achieve.
Now I need to get BUSY doing the things you have explained so well!
David, I was looking at the photosites I enjoy most and I found out that there were new posts on dg28.com. This one was very inventive and could maybe be on lighting101: http://www.dg28.com/technique/two_set_ups.htm
Strobist reader Ozine
Thank you for sharing this information. Found it very helpful for what I am trying to do.
Thank you very much for Lighting 101. this site has provided me with an understanding of lighting, It's just what I was looking for!
Awesome! Thank You for sharing!!
I found a site with some pretty inexpensive prices. I am on the other side of the camera (the model) but I know how important lighting is. This site has many tools (lighting, filters, clamp mounts,Gels, Digital SLR Remote and such) I wish I knew more about lighting to experiment but I leave that to the Pro's. Go to the other categories too like: Flashlights, and DIY tools they have some neat gadgets I am sure someone would find useful. Just letting ya know and wanted to tell ya to keep up the good work! =}
Erica
This is the home page and the other go straight to camera categories which is I think under hobbies:
http://www.dealextreme.com/default.dx/r.69437590
www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.806~r.69437590
.........oh you get rebates also depending who you tell about the site and what they buy which is kinda cool not much but hey every little helps =]. They have other stuff besides camera equipment too.
There is a ripoff site in the UK called strobistonline, or strobist online or something, but this is the original Strobist and everyone knows it.
Hi, it seems that the youtube video is no longer available :-(.
Hi David,
Firstly just a great big thank you. For everything you have done with "Strobist" I've been lurking in the background since the begining and have just been amazed and your generosity and wisdom. Thank you.
Now, the second reason is to share my first attempt at off camera manual shooting - and doing it in a funky way... the background was a straw cream.... the result... http://theboystravel.blogspot.com/2008/07/too-much-flashing.html
Again thank you very much for the journey to date, looking forward to more.
With warm regards
Kingsley
Perth, Western Australia
PS just finished the DVD's and its awesome!
i have been reading and absorbing all this site offers and i don't think i have ever said thank you!
so,, thank you!!
A great little video packed with information, you did a great job.
Thanks for the very informative video. This has been a great help in reducing the size of my location kit.
This site is what I have been looking for... Right on! Thank you! I Wish I would have found this site 2 weeks ago but found it now. I got all but the umbrella. I will have to order a couple of those... a couple of days ago I ordered a soft box. I will be getting that today so I will start experimenting tonight. yea!
all this off camera lighting stuff is a lot simpler than it sounds. its a little daunting reading about it in all these tutorials with terms that are foreign to you.
my advice: go out, buy some pocket wizards, a nice light stand, flash bracket, and umbrella, and just experiment. youll get the hang of it. the best way to learn is to just do it and practice practice practice. when you experiment you discover new things. its really not hard at all.
This is spectacular. Thanks for taking the time to publish this material. As someone whose never seriously used lighting, your efforts are tremendously appreciated.
This is amazing.
Many thanks for this information!
Keep up the good work.
Greetz from a great fan and also a professional freelance photographer from Belgium (Europe)
Thanks a lot for sharing with us all this informations.
Great video.
Just received your Strobist Lighting Seminar. I read your site all the time - 101 & 102. But seeing the set-up, the progression, your discussion. Well worth the money! The bonus DVDs really pull it all together. Great work! I will go back to these a few times as they are so loaded with great techniques.
excellent read here. Look forward to trying some of the techniques out! thank you!
I have learned more from Strobist than any other source.
The tricky bit for me is that I am visually impaired (legally blind). So I have had to adapt the Strobist approach for my eyesight. I have been posting about it on my blog. If you, or anyone reading this, has any interest or ideas, please come by and comment.
The folks on the Strobist Flickr group have been very helpful.
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Deborah
Term Life Insurance
this for this, im a newbie to lighting, so much valuable article about lighting article here. keep it up :)
hahah nice one. with the female & male
David - I very much appreciated that short video, both for the educational content and for the excellent deadpan humor.
-Andy
David,
Just purchased and finished watching the DVDs from your seminar. Absolutely great stuff. I really enjoyed the tips and techniques.
Your sunflower and macro material helped me get inspired to stretch beyond the macro ring light.
Shooting with an A700 makes it a bit more of challange in the gear department as I will be looking for generic vs sony light solutions.
Thanks again
Bob
David,
Like everyone else I must say the details you provided is just phenomenal. Now I exactly know what I can do with what gadgets.
Thanks a bunch
Thank you thank you thank you. This is just what I´ve been looking for. I can´t wait to get some new gear and start tryig with umberellas and reflectors
Thanks for the short but very informative video about lighting!
Thankyou so much for creating this resource!
I couldn't get the video to work at first - but I found that if you're using FireFox on the Mac, try opening the page in Safari instead.
Thanks so much! This is awesome and exactly what I'm needing.
Light makes our life brighter and funner.
hey... i have an old novatron 500 plus set up... i need to know the best way to sync it with my 50d.... it did come with a slave... but im not having any luck syncing it... ideas?
nice lighting guide, thanks for sharing. This is what i looking for to my final exam.
Hi everyone. I recently started reading this series and am making all the purchases to really expand my off camera lighting. I thought I would share some info to make things easier for others who are shopping for items in the UK.
I've looked through loads of websites trying to find the equipment and at the best prices but please don't moan if the prices have now changed.
These are narrowed down to only a few options but this is after much research and thought.
Light stand: Interfit COR751
First Call Photographic - £37.99
Hilton Photographic - £39.99
Fotosense - £37.18
Karlu.com - £34.99
Studio Kit direct - £39.78
Light stand: Manfrotto Nano001
TeamWork Photo & Digital - £36
Robert White - £38
Umbrella Holder: Manfrotto 026
Calumet Photo - £18.99
Team Work Photo - £25
Robert White - £23
The Flash Centre - £27
Fotosense - £18.95
Karlu.com - £24.99
Warehouse Express - £18.59
There are cheaper umbrella holders available such as the Interfit Strobies version and the Calumet holder with hot shoe included, but apparently these do not have the umbrella holder hole at an angle so are not designed as well as the manfrotto option.
Flash Shoe: Manfrotto 143S
Fotosense - £8.05
Karlu.com - £9.75
Umbrella: Dual Duty Silver / Black / White
Calumet Photo - £37.98
Team Work Photo - £33
Karlu - £29.35
Now, which to shop from? I compared the prices for various stores including the delivery charges and finding out how much the prices change once the VAT is actually added on (a very annoying feature of some websites).
I originally ordered all my things from Crazy Cameras.com but I have not listed them above because everyone should avoid them like the plague. They seem to be a Philipino company shipping items via California (if they ever do ship). I have read numerous bad reviews about them and am currently trying to get my money refunded. They also take the money from your card the moment you order, regardless of whether they have the items in stock, and even if they don't dispatch for up to a month.
The best company that I found - for prices and customer service is karlu.com
The staff were very helpful and the prices are up there with the cheapest. I'll let you know if things change for the worse, but at the moment, I just wanted to share my experiences to save other people the time I spent in searching through loads of different sites and wasting time with a terrible company.
Best of luck everyone with the strobing and thanks very much to David for this awesome informative blog
Hey David, I would love to get more strobist starting up in South Florida, but with the commercialization of the strobist movement, prices are sky rocketing to the point where going the ebay monolight route is cheaper. If there's ANY way you can put together a fully functional kit (2 lights, wireless) for under $150, and pitch it to a sponsor, it'd sell ridiculously.
I assembled a basic one here which should get the job done with JUST enough power.
http://floridastrobists.blogspot.com/2009/11/cheap-strobist-kit.html
Let me know what you think (I now use the yn460 as a backlight, it's reliable and it seems they fixed all the kinks out)
Thanks for everything you do,
-BM
Can't thank you much.. So happy I found this link from some Flickr Discussion. I am wanted to start taking pictures with my D70s and D90 with additional lights. Learning everything by experience and from online blogs. This helped me most. Thank you again. I will be reading lot more here now.
This "lighting 101" might just go down in history. Classic resource that always has something new. Great job!
I know I'll probably get shot for asking this because I have a feeling I'm far from the first.
I have a Canon ST-E2 and a 480EXII and I want to add another slave flash. I'm on a slim budget so the Vivitar 285hv looks like a good option. I realize I would have to use this in manual mode but what do I need to make it communicate with the ST-E2?
Just an unbelievable amount of info here. I'm taking a lighting class at college and this is a great supplement
and learning resource. Thanks so much. John
Thank you so much for this! The presentation of your tutorials makes this a lot less intimidating for beginning strobist like myself. I've been into DSLR photog for about a year and a half. I started out with a Nikon D60 and upgraded about a month ago to the D90. I am picking up an SB-600 within the next couple of days and look forward to experimenting!
Thanks!!
Thank you so much for this terrific resource!
Again and again, I find myself coming back here for reference. What a superb resource! Thank you.
Thank you. I know it's been said many times already, and probably not even close to enough, but thank you for posting Lighting 101. I jumped from a used D70 bought Sept 2008 to a D300s, purchased in Feb 2010.
In a very short year and a half I've gone from P - that means Panning, right? to shooting full time manual, and getting results. I've acquired a SB800 flash and am trying to get the hang of making event photography look as good as a staged shoot. Reading your blog has made me think and learn, and today was THE day, when I looked at a photo of a baby in arms, and thought, hmm, there was strong light coming from off camera right, and probably some kind of bounced light from the left, which is why there are gentle highlights.
Kind of an AHA! moment - and those come too seldom.
Thank you.
Hello & Thank you for your very useful video.
I do have a problem though. I did followed (i hope) the guidelines but i still can not get my strobe to work.
I got the lamp tripod, the hot shoe, the strobe, the radio trigger and the umbrella but i think there must be something i'm missing because i can not get my strobe to work.. hmmm. Any ideas???? Your reaction is more than welcome!!!!
Thanks in advance.
Maria
Hi. I shoot with a D-90 and have a SB-600. I've been considering buying a 300 w/s monolight with stand, umbrella, battery pack, etc. but wonder how much I'd actually use it. I enjoy stills and macro around the house but also enjoy attempting "artsy" shots and macro outdoors. My main issue is getting the lighting/shadows right with stills and macro.
I need help trying to figure out the best bang for my buck. Would I end up using the monolight more once I use it or would I get more use out of a second SB-600 along with a stand and umbrela? Thanks!
Hi. I shoot with a D-90 and have a SB-600. I've been considering buying a 300 w/s monolight with stand, umbrella, battery pack, etc. but wonder how much I'd actually use it. I enjoy stills and macro around the house but also enjoy attempting "artsy" shots and macro outdoors. My main issue is getting the lighting/shadows right with stills and macro.
I need help trying to figure out the best bang for my buck. Would I end up using the monolight more once I use it or would I get more use out of a second SB-600 along with an umbrella and stand? Thanks!
Thank you so much for lighting 101!! There is so much great information and I can't wait to start practicing what I've read about.
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