{"id":966,"date":"2009-04-10T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2009-04-10T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:38:30","slug":"lighting-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/lighting-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a whole bunch of lighting related stuff to mention today:<\/p>\n

\"starving<\/a>I got my starving student kit<\/a> (SX2) from Midwest Photo Exchange. This is a pretty neat kit. If you check out the link you will see all the stuff that is included. The highlights are the stand (fairly compact), a shoot through umbrella, a swivel that connects the stand, the umbrella, the flash, and allows the flash\/umbrella to tilt. The umbrella is really compact when folded.<\/p>\n

I decided to get the kit to get all the pieces to try it out. They are supportive of the strobist<\/a> community, and the kit gets a discount. There is some other stuff in the kit that will be fun to play with too. Gells, tape, straws and cinefoil to use to make DIY light shaping tools.<\/p>\n

Mpex also has a new all manual flash, the\u00ac\u2020LumoPro LP120\u00ac\u2020<\/a>\u00ac\u2020for only $129 that I might look at later.<\/p>\n

\"Photoflex<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, I decided that the umbrella wasn’t enough, I needed to spring for a softbox. We had been using them in the studio lighting class exclusively, and this small LightDome<\/a> that works on my SB800 was on sale. I head of this gem from Matt Brandon. He\u00ac\u2020posted about\u00ac\u2020using one here<\/a> and then PhotoFlex was highlighting<\/a> him.<\/p>\n

What makes this kind of funny is that tomorrow I am going to go take pictures of a newborn with this very contraption. Just so happens that friends down the street just had their second baby, and I just happened to get a light box. Coincidence?<\/p>\n

This is not the same item, but I will try the same ideas as this<\/a> strobist post too soon.<\/p>\n

\"Vector\"<\/p>\n

I am also finally going to get to use my new light toy<\/a>. Well, those other things are really my newest light toys, but at one time this was, and I haven’t used it yet. I need to make sure it is changed up. Heading out with some friends to hit a barn with 2 million\u00ac\u2020watts of light. Actually, 8 million watts of light if we all hit the barn with the lights. Might even be too much light! Anyway, that should be fun.<\/p>\n

So, lots of new toys, and I am going to try to use them all this weekend. Everyone always says you shouldn’t buy new shoes the day before the big race, and I probably shouldn’t head to take portraits with\u00ac\u2020new equipment\u00ac\u2020I have never tried before, but hey, what the heck. Pictures to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a whole bunch of lighting related stuff to mention today: I got my starving student kit (SX2) from Midwest Photo Exchange. This is a pretty neat kit. If you check out the link you will see all the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[161,41,162,163],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}