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    Beware: Mom With Camera
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    Light Kits.

    (cross posted)

    I really really REALLY lust after some studio lights.

    On ebay they sell complete "light kits".... let me find the link.
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...3828725629&rd=1

    Do you think these are sufficient lights? A good deal? Enough for a beginner like me to play around with??

    And what about the backgrounds?? Paper??

    Any advice appreciated. Like I said - I would just like to be able to take posed shots indoors.... and right now I can't. I HATE FLASH.
    Kate


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    Personally I'm a monolight kinda guy. With this kit, what I would use everything but the actual lights as I'm not a hotlight fan. I would break everything down in this package and price it out individually and see if your saving money or not.

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    I really really REALLY lust after some studio lights.

    Do you think these are sufficient lights? A good deal?

    I too like mono lights. I bought a hot light system from Adorama and tried to do a studio head shot session. The lights do get very hot and heat up the room and your subject. It's hard on makeup. I also had to shoot at a big f2 aperture and a lot of the shots were blurred from movement. I sold the setup on eBay and got White lightning strobes and haven't looked back. This is just my experience and at the time probably a lot of my inexperience too. There are some site's you can find on the web that compare the two. They will probably give a better explaination of the pro's and con's than me. I do know about light lust. It's an expensive addiction.

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    Can you explain to me the difference between hot lights, mono lights and strobe lights ? English is not my native language.
    The hot lights are lights that give a continuous ray of light, and the others are some kind of flashes.
    Am I correct ?

    Thanks for explaining me.

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