I bite the bullet and purchased a light kit today

[Peter_AUS]

Wife wasn't impressed but she can live with that. I needed to do this as I need to have something I can learn with and get the flash output needed to learn this properly as well.

I decided on the Bowens Esprit II 500 x 2 kit which comes with 2 light stands, 2 heads, 1 reflector, 70cm x 70cm softbox, 1 silver/white upbrella, sync cord, bag etc. I also got a reflector holder as well.

Pic of the lights setup, will need to play with these for a while to get used to them, and need to have the model in place to focus on, otherwise it makes it very hard to get the right focus distance by yourself.

Taken with no flash at all, only light was flurescent ceiling light. I was impressed a little with that, haven't tried that before.

Take care everyone.