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Photography Equipment Backdrops
What equipment do i need to start doing portraits?

I have been doing photography on my own for the past few years. I have done a few local weddings, a few friends senior pictures, sports pictures (indivial and team pics) for a local school etc. I don’t have any backdrops, lighting equipment, props or anything special for my work. I dont have a TON of money to just spend right now as I am getting married in the next 6 months but I also have 2 weddings to shoot next year and some other stuff coming up. Can someone tell me where to buy backgrounds, what color will be the best to buy that can be used for multifunctions and what lighting/flashes i should buy. Thanks.

Backdrops are cheap. Seamless paper or a muslin backdrop, canvas if you want.

Lighting is the expensive part. You’ll probably need a couple of 500w strobes with softboxes or umbrellas and a 300w for backlighting. Calumet (calumetphoto.com) often has some nice kits cheap. You can go with hotlights cheaper, but there are drawbacks. You can easily figure $1500 for lighting like this, or check craigslist.org (if available wherever you are) for deals of someone else getting rid of some of their gear.

If you want to stick to outside shots, bag the backdrops, consider a couple of hotlights or smallish strobes for fills and large filters/reflectors to soften natural light.

Photography Equipment Backdrops

Difficulty of photography lighting equipment?

I am considering purchasing 2 side softboxes and a 3rd softbox on a boom, as well as some backdrops on ebay. I was wondering, though, I do not have experience with lighting equipment. Is it very difficult to learn how to use? Are there a bunch of settings that you have to be familiar with?

Lighting tutorials: http://www.net-art.it/photomonitor/html/teoria_tecnica/illuminazione/index-e.shtml

Studio Equipment for Photography : BackDrop Setup Video – PhotographyBackgrounds.co.uk





Where next with my studio photography?

I’ve now purchased all my lighting equipment and backdrops and it’s a bit hard to know what to do next. I think before I can start charging people I should probably do a few free practise shoots but then again I don’t know if that’d just be a waste of time and I should just charge straight away.

Yes you need to practise before attempting to charge anyone.
You can practice on friends, family or join some of the many photographer & model sites such as Net-model, Purestorm etc and ask if anyone wants to do TFP (time for prints)

Studio Equipment for Photography : BackDrop And Stands Unboxing.

Portable Photo Studio Kit including Tent + Lights + Tripod £28.99 Combine your digital camera with this kit, and you’ll have everything you need to get great shots. In less than a minute, you can have everything out of the case, set up and ready to use. When you’re done, it is just as quick to take down and store.Contents :- – Studio Surround, Size: 40cm x 40cm x 40cm – Two lights on stands (Caution – Lamps get extremely hot when in use, do not touch, Maximum Su…

60cm Professional Photographic equipment shooting tent round soft Photography light tent kit – 12 Month Warranty >>> THT Trade – SKU: 3709 £59.99 This is a good kit catering for a lot of photographers who needs a mobile, highly portable shooting tent, easy to carry around and set up. round soft light tent kit include 1.soft light tent(60cm) 2.2 pcs LP-0416 light 3.1 stand…

PhotoSEL LS21E52 Professional Softbox Studio Lighting Kit with 2x85w 5400K CRI>90 Bulbs, 40x60cm Softboxes £119.99 If you have been trying to shoot pictures with an accurate colour representation of the items you are photographing it is very likely that you have been relying on special filters and/or software editing to improve the results. With the PhotoSEL LS21E52 Professional Studio Light Set, this may well be a thing of the past. Rather than providing inferior quality 6400K bulbs (as many other sellers do)…

Backdrops and Backgrounds: A Portrait Photographer’s Guide £22.60 …