Cheap 3 flash light setup testing

[adam hoskins]

My new cheap light setup £248 for 3x flash heads plus stands 2xumbrellas silver reflectorplus 2xsoft boxes 4 gels and 1 honey comb plus 1 barn door.Also one wireless trigger 4ch connects via power lead and hotshoe adapter for camera. testing to see what is the largest aperture i could use with this cheap setup as has had mixed reviews. All shots with canon 60d 18-135mm lense


dpp1 f22 1/250 sec 60mm iso100 2 light flash both full power under exposed
dpp8 f22 1/125 dec 60mm iso100 2 light flash both full power slightly under exposed
dpp9 f19 1/125 sec 60mm iso 100 2 light flash both full power correctly exposed
dpp10 f16 1/125 sec 60mm iso 100 2 light flash both full power slightly over exposed
dpp17 f19 1/180 sec 60mm iso 100 2 light flash both full power correctly exposed

so on full power for both heads only f19 at 1/125 and 1/180 would correctly expose image to get a high key shot. bearing in mind that lights have dimmer style switch so only has min and max settings and dial inbetween to fine tune.

Coudlnt fit any more images on so here are the final results for both heads being turned onto their lowest setting which you could dial in.
f11 1/180 60mm iso 100 both lights lowest power output correctly exposed being picky just slightly off a high key shot
f9.5 1/180 60mm iso 100 lights lowest power output correctly exposed
f6.7 1/250 60mm iso 100 lights on lowest power output correctly exposed

so all in all not a bad set of lights for price and packaging i would happily reccomend these lights as a starter kit for low budget . Lights seem pretty sturdy and soft boxes are rigid barn doors are not brill but not to bad, gels are handy if your trying something new. Here is link anyway , review is to point out that not all cheap studio flash kits are bad and you can still get some good results.
Fotobyte - Professional Photographic Studio equipment and studio lighting kits | photography studio equipment

 

[Laurence Cremetti]

Remarkable.
Great price, good result!

 

[Hamish Gill]

It is nuts what you can get for this sort of cash....
Definitely looking forward to hearing your on going thoughts on these

What are the aprox dimensions of the room?

 

[adam hoskins]

9x16 ft room.dimensions, so long and just wide enough. Got two paid for shoots next week so should be fun I can give them a full run

 

[Hamish Gill]

What sorta shoots you got booked? Sounds like your on the way to making a bit of cash out of this photography lark!

 

[adam hoskins]

Got two family shoots to do both children and parents. I've got a further 6 to book in as well including pin up shoot for a girl who wants some photos for her chaps b day. So getting busy already but a long way to go yet

 

[Hamish Gill]

Got two family shoots to do both children and parents. I've got a further 6 to book in as well including pin up shoot for a girl who wants some photos for her chaps b day. So getting busy already but a long way to go yet

we have a section for that sort of thing!

there is always a long way to go imo Adam!

Im just lucky that my photography work comes as part of my job ... I get the work because our main line of work requires it!
had an enquiry from a current web client asking me if I would fly to grand canaria to photograph a house and its (very expensive) entertainment system the other day ... as you can imagine i very calmly said that would be fine and that i would get back to him with costs
I wouldn't get any of this if we weren't a web design company with a reasonably sized current client base i wouldn't have thought ... going it alone is arguably much harder, but may well be more satisfying! my advice is to keep the ball rolling, and most importantly, keep the enthusiasm for what you are doing up ... if you are enthusiastic you will get work, the more you get, the more you will get! thats just the way it works!

 

[adam hoskins]

Well as soon as I get the pics done they will be up. Just looking forward getting my teeth into the hard work ahead so will be as flat out promoting and leafleting .