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Old 11-27-2001, 10:41 AM   #3
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Re: Lighting your subject

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Originally posted by David Dowbyhuz
Do I have to buy fancy photographer-grade lamps, filters, reflector-umbrellas, etc? (Hope not.)
Actually, that is the route I have just taken - though, not overly expensive. I went to a site called B&H Photography and bought a Smith-Victor Photography Lighting Kit - the K42-ua Quartz Lighting Kit - $319.

http://www01.bhphotovideo.com/defaul...ID=EAA3E17EFE0

(The forum keeps truncating the URL to the actual kit, but that will at least get you to the site.)

It is a continuous lighting system. I have used strobe flash systems before, but prefer to actually see my lighting...hence the constant lighting system. Plus, it's portable.
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Last edited by Cynthia Daniel; 11-28-2001 at 01:11 AM.
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