Your Basic Lighting Kit: A Spin Around the Block
Abstract: A Guided Tour for your first steps with your new lighting kit. This post received a major update on April 12, 2021. Okay, so the UPS guy has just dropped off your box of new lighting gear. What do you do with it? Where do you start? No worries. You got this. Once or twice a year, I teach a beginner's lighting class . But since I'm not here with you now as you are wading into the waters for the first time, let's replicate the first exercise in that class together, remotely. We are going to walk through a "first steps" exercise with your new gear. If you are reading ahead just to explore, fine. Just make sure you come back to this page when your kit arrives. First we are going to put our gear together for the first time, then we are going to use it to make some simple, dramatic portraits. Getting to Know Your Flash and Remote Trigger Today's flashes are extremely capable and feature-ladened. So they can seem a little daunting when you first set them up