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A Basic Portrait Kit - Off Camera Flash (OCF)

October 10, 2020 in Gear, Getting Started

At some point you come across off camera flash (OCF) and get introduced to a world full of cool looking images and behind the scenes images.

You see post after post of multiple light setups with big softboxes, stands and other equipment and then you go shopping.

Hold up. STOP.

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A Basic Kit - For Available Light Portrait Photography

October 09, 2020 in Gear, Getting Started, How To

When starting in portrait photography it is all too easy to get sucked in to studio or off camera flash world when really what we need to do is to start simple with natural / available light.

For this we don’t need a ton of kit.

If you have a camera & lens you can get to work and if you want to add a few tools to offer a lot of control you can do so very affordably.

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Q & A - #001 - What lights for a small 4m wide studio?

October 09, 2020 in Q&A

I had a question sent via DM on Instagram from agent called Nick.

Nick asked “ Rick, in terms of lighting for my little studio That’s 4m wide I’m thinking 1 to 2 citi 300 and 2 pika 200s. That should do it?”

In the video below I go over how I would approach this question and it may not be what you would think.