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Jun 24, 2008 17:08 |  #1

A friend and myself are setting up a home studio...we have just bought a softbox (a massive 8 sided one), bought on e-bay, now we need a backlight, we would like to know which is the best to buy....I'm guessing one with continuos light. (We are still amateur's - so not much knowledge)
If there is a light that we need that would serve us better than a backlight please let me know.
We have about $360 (AUD) to spend.
Hope that somebody out there can offer some advice!!


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Jun 25, 2008 00:39 |  #2

Any body, some body??????


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Jun 25, 2008 05:14 |  #3

What light(s) are you using for home studio right now? Strobe or continuous?


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Jun 25, 2008 05:43 |  #4

OK, so you have a softbox. What is inside that softbox? Flash or continuous light? Do you have any other lights?? Need more info before giving advice... (also, $360 might not be enough cash for what you want to buy - the "best" always costs a little more :) ).


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Jun 25, 2008 16:22 |  #5

Lotto wrote in post #5788054 (external link)
What light(s) are you using for home studio right now? Strobe or continuous?

The softbox is continuous light!!


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Jun 25, 2008 16:24 |  #6

Rudi wrote in post #5788145 (external link)
OK, so you have a softbox. What is inside that softbox? Flash or continuous light? Do you have any other lights?? Need more info before giving advice... (also, $360 might not be enough cash for what you want to buy - the "best" always costs a little more :) ).

The softbox has continuous light, I realise $360 is not alot, it is all we have though, just to sort of launch ourselves.
We mainly want to do portrait photography. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Jun 25, 2008 19:09 |  #7

Have a read about strobe vs continuous lighting in the faq. In short professional + hot lights = hot sweaty subjects = bad idea.


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