Portrait Equipment
Lighting Kit Setups
- Beginners complete kit
- Lighting types
- 1 main light: Flashpoint Cool Light 4
- a1 fill light: Flashpoint Cool Light 1 (can be used reflecting into a white card)
- 1 hair light (a small light with a snoot or grid)
- 1 background light (any small fixture light will do)
- Lighting (other):
- 1 silver reflector umbrella: Creative Light 33" Silver Umbrella, (compare prices)
- 4 light stands: Westcott 750 Photo Basics 7.5-Foot Light Stand, (compare prices)
- Seamless paper background
- Miscellaneous:
- Extension cords (hardware store)
- Gaffers tape
- Extra bulbs (depends on fixture)
- Cloth work gloves if you are using hot tungsten lights (hardware store)
- An assortment of colored gels and diffusion material
- Clothespins for holding the gels
Photo Video Backdrop Stand Kit
- Ravelli ABSL Photo Video Backdrop Stand Kit 13' Tall x 15' Wide with Dual Air Cushion Stands and Bag (link)
- StudioPRO 3200 Watt Double 24"x36" Softbox Continuous Portrait & Video Lighting Kit - Film, Photography & Studio Essentials Includes Light Stand & 45W Daylight Bulbs (link)
- Main/Key light and fill light
Notes
- Backdrops
- Thin muslin white/black/green backgrounds...alternative (?)
- How to clean/press/steam (?)
- I use a small hand held fabric steamer (via)
- Lighting
- Types:
- Main light (key)
- primary and strongest light
- Provides shape and form
- Can use umbrella or softbox
- Fill light
- "fill in" shadow areas created by other lights
- provide an even, non-directional light
- adds little character or shadows of its own
- nearly always weaker than the main light
- can use a shoot-through umbrella
- Alternatively: foamcore, at 45-degree angle, to the subject
- Kicker light (rim, edge)
- accent the edges of the subject
- placed just out of view and, behind and slightly to the right or left of the subject
- Hair light
- enhance hair texture
- provide separation from the background
- Should have a snoot or grid (note: maybe a filter frame?)
- Background light
- Illuminates the background
- even or graduated, color neutral or colored with the addition of gels
- separate the subject from the background
- Notes
- Closer light to subject: softer; farther away: harder
- LumoPro LP180
- Softbox
- Emulate the soft, directional lighting produced by window light
- Directional
- Light modifiers
- Somewhat more expensive
- Slightly more complicated
- Basic knowledge of balancing main light versus fill light, so it won't produce contrasting lighting
- Octobox
- combines the benefits of both reflective and shoot through umbrellas
- Vendors
- http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/759870-REG/Lastolite_LL_LS2462JM_Joe_McNally_Ezybox_Hotshoe.html/BI/2388/KBID/3211
- Umbrella
- Cheap
- Broad and soft source of lighting that could, for the sake of simplicity, be considered to emulate outdoor lighting
- Indirect, bounced light
- Easier for beginners
- Lighting is much broader, softer with less modeling on the subject’s face and there’s more light spilling onto on background
- Light is bounced, so the quantity is less, which requires lower f-stop and higher ISO
- Reflective
- Light is reasonably well controlled and doesn’t bounce around everywhere
- Can’t produce very soft light, as the design forces the flash head to be between the subject and the umbrella, which means that it can’t be placed close to the subject
- Shoot-through
- only about 60% of the light actually passes through
- the rest bounces back and, in a small studio, will bounce off of the ceiling, walls, etc.
- creates pretty uncontrolled lighting and if the light also bounces towards your camera lens it can cause flare
- Combination: removable reflective cover
- Vendors
- Smith Victor
- Adorama
- Lowel
- Photoflex
- Lastolite (hotbox)
- Manfrotto (stands)
Chris Schmauch, Good Eye Photography
- Camera
- Nikon D800
- Nikon D3
- Nikon D70 (backup)
- Lens
- 28-70/2.8
- 17-35/2.8
- 70-200/2.8
- 85/1.4
- 60/2.8
- 50/1.4
- Lights
- Studio strobes
- Foursquare softbox (containing the four Nikon SB-800 speedlites)
- Nikon SB-600 speedlite
- Profoto B1 mono light
- 30″ softbox
- Other
- PocketWizard Flex TT5, to trigger/sync speedlites
- Lightroom
Resources
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