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Studio Lighting

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When dealing with studio lights for the first time, it's easy to get bogged down in the "what brand should I get" questions. Unfortunately, as the technology is constantly changing, any document that tried to answer that definitively would be out of date by the time it was written. Rather than do that, I've aimed for a set of issues each photographer should be aware of, to help them make a good decision about what equipment they need, based on what's available at the time.

Overview

There are currently two main categories of studio lighting: constant-source lights, such as household lamps, quartz-halogen lamps, HMI, fluorescent, etc. and flash lights. This article will focus on flash systems; constant-source lights will not be discussed here. ..."
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