I want to get into real strobe work, but it's kind of inscrutable. Is this one of the things where I'm going to be fine with 250 Watt Neewers or am I going to eventually end up buying 600 Watt Alien Bees eventually anyway so I shouldn't waste money on the cheap stuff initially.
Also, how many do I need, Main, Fill, and Hair, or do I need a fourth, or a fifth??
My current plan is to get two 300 Watt AC/DC lights for fill and hair and then a 600 Watt AC/DC to use as a main and as a fill light for sunlight. Am I headed in the wrong direction?
Also, would be thankful for brand or feature recommendations, as well as accessories. I have beauty dishes and a couple home-made snoots (cardboard whisky bottle sleeves work great) that I use with speedlights, but am looking at a big softbox with a honeycomb and a couple umbrellas.
If you've read this far you probably know more than I do, any help would be appreciated.
ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Portrait and Landscape Compositions Exist
Seriously. How does an art site not know that other than square compositions exist? If a square composition was right, I would have shot it that way. If I wanted to be on Instagram, I'd be on fucking Instagram.
Hasn't been a Journal for a long while.
Not sure I'll last beyond the switch to Eclipse. And not because I can't eventually make my peace with a new format. But it's driving away the people I need to learn from.
Not that it really matters, this is more of an epitaph than anything. Like I say, most of my friends here have moved along already.
A long time ago, this place helped me go from being a kid with a good eye to a legitimately good photographer. My hope is to become great someday, but I don't think that can happen here anymore. The mentors are gone, the dialogue is gone. In its place is a click farm where you're lured to the next page instead of really interacting.
It
Yeah. My Old Journal was Depressing
So I wanted to bury it.
Here's an idea.
Respond with an idea and I will reply with a photograph that represents that idea as well as I can manage.
Go nuts you psychos.
Bored Photographer Problems
Woe is me.
The leaves are gone.
Sunsets are all gray.
The galactic center is on the wrong side of the globe at night.
I live too far south for Northern Lights.
Bugs are all dead for the winter.
Flowers are all dead for the winter.
Nobody gets married in February.
I'm too poor to travel to alpine places.
That's an excuse
I'm really too fat and lazy to go climbing alpine places.
Not really "con" season.
And I don't really have a connection here who is into that sort of thing.
And I'm shy.
Deer don't like having things pointed at them this time of year.
That's fair.
Old war buddy is living in my "studio" until he finds work.
No
© 2015 - 2024 swiftmoonphoto
Comments5
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
You can do a lot more with a simple two-strobe setup than you'd think, especially if you add reflectors and flags to the mix. I started out using simple optical slaves and worked up from there. The Strobist blog is a fantastic resource for this. Start at the beginning--it's really worth it.
Save the money you'd spend on the Bees until you reach a point where you know you need them and can quantify the strobes' limitations on your photography. Until then, invest where it will do you the most immediate good.
Save the money you'd spend on the Bees until you reach a point where you know you need them and can quantify the strobes' limitations on your photography. Until then, invest where it will do you the most immediate good.