p.1 #1 · Suggestions for a beginner's lighting kit?
I'd like to get more serious with my lighting. I already have a SB-800 and SB-600. I would want a portable setup. I'm thinking I would need the following:
2x Umbrella
2x Light stand
2x Flash bracket
1x Wireless transmitter
2x Receiver
1x Carrying case
Am I missing anything else? Looking to spend around $200-$300. Any suggestions would be great.
Radio triggers could be two receivers, or one receiver with the SB-800 in its SU-4 mode, which is optical slave trigger, and will trigger from the flash of the other.
In a studio setting, I just use a PC sync cord to nearest flash, and SU-4 on the other.
Or, if your camera has a Commander (and FV Lock option), it would trigger both of these flashes remotely, and this normally works pretty well indoors with umbrellas for portraits. Could be a starting point.
p.1 #3 · Suggestions for a beginner's lighting kit?
C Napa wrote:
I'd like to get more serious with my lighting. I already have a SB-800 and SB-600. I would want a portable setup. I'm thinking I would need the following:
You have the two most critical pieces of a portable solution you simply need to learn how to use them more effectively. A very simple but effective two flash portable solution would be to mount your SB-800 on a flash bracket with a diffuser as Master/Fill using your SB-600 off camera on a single stand as Slave triggered with the CLS system. I shoot similarly with my Canon gear. See: http://photo.nova.org/CanonPracticalUsage/ for rationale and examples.
