Yes, she is shooting many small items. But she also sells clothing, which she puts on a mannequin. Its the larger items that are going to require a different lighting setup. I found this non-hot lighting setup, which you can buy on B&H for about $150:

http://tinyurl.com/2urz2

She only has a P&S (the HP707) so the other flashes have to be triggered in a slave fashion, I don't think you can plug a sync chord into that camera. I think you can set the flash on that camera so that it doesn't fire a pre-flash.

For small items, I would recommend exactly as you mentioned, a couple of medium sized reflectors with some good fluorescents.

rg


Butch Black wrote:
Sorry I'm late to this thread. Work's been crazy and I'm a day or so behind
on the digests.

I concur that I wouldn't go with hot lights. The one thing I haven't seen in
the threads (up to where I've read so far) is what your friend is shooting.
If it's primarily small items like jewelry or knick-knacks I would just buy
a couple of shop light reflectors and put daylight balanced compact
fluorescent bulbs in it. Larger items and I would go with some inexpensive
flash, Britek might be a good source and a set up would not be much more
then the SV unit. Check out Shutterbug, Britek usually advertises there.

Butch

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself.

Hermann Hesse (Demian)






Reply via email to