Posts Tagged ‘Home photography studio lighting’

When considering setting up a home studio for photography, whether it be for portrait, product, or food photography, the most important decision is typically regarding the lighting. Should you go for continuous lighting or strobes? And if going for strobes, should you go for speedlight flashguns or studio strobes?

I've covered the differences between continuous lighting and flash in the article LED Light panel vs. Flash. So in today's article I want to look at the choice between speedlight flashguns and studio strobes. We'll look at the benefits and disadvantages of each system, to help you make the decision as to which will work best for your purposes.

Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite Flash and Elinchrom D-Lite RX 4 Studio Strobe

Setting up a home photography studio might sound expensive or like you'd need a lot of room, but actually it is something you can do yourself quite cheaply. The amount of space required for a studio area really depends on how large the subject you are photographing is.

aleksanian by Bolshakov on flickr (licensed CC-BY)