What type of studio lights, reflectors, and equipment do I need for home studio lighting?

February 2, 2010 by homelighting · 3 Comments
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Kayster asked:


I own a Nikon D40 with a 18-55mm lens/wide angle and macro lens. I have taken beautiful photos outside with natural light, but when it comes to taking nice portraits at home-it doesn’t look right. I would like to take photographs and have Rembrandt lighting on my subjects. I would like the opinions of photographers/graphic designers-and anyone else that seriously knows. Thank you very much for your input.

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3 Responses to “What type of studio lights, reflectors, and equipment do I need for home studio lighting?”
  1. PL says:
    February 4, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    You would needed to buy the background stand and background paper(any color you want). Then you would need to buy the strobe lights. I’m not really good with this. But I did went out and got myself a home studio too. I went to the store not knowing what I want. I just went in and said can you tell me what I need to build a home studio I’m a beginner. So she just got me the basic stuff and told me what I would want to buy next time if I want to improve my studio.

    Here’s a photo of my studio:

    Look around my photostream if you like there are photos taken in my studio.

    Hope this helped.
    Good luck. :) [who] PL

  2. iN Publishers says:
    February 6, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    soft box, cone lighting [who] iN Publishers

  3. chilliking123 says:
    February 7, 2010 at 12:10 pm

    you don’t have to spend big money on studio style lighting. you can achieve all you want to with a couple of secondhand speed lights, shoot through umbrellas off ebay and some practice.

    check out the book mentioned on the link below – it will teach you all you need to know about lighting on the cheap. [who] chilliking123

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