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Black and White backdrop popup

Smick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:41:14 +0000

We now have in stock a black and white 100% cotton muslin popup background 150 x 200cm, they are black one side and white the other. This is ideal for use around the studio as a background but actually is great if you are on the move as it packs down into its own 70cm diameter bag.

Its at home for use with studio flash or video lighting, it is also useful as a large white reflector. The black side can be used to kill light in fact acts as the reverse of a reflector.

Black White popup

Strobist Softbox

Smick — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:05:01 +0000

If you don’t want to invest in studio flash then the logical step towards studio lighting is the strobist route, we have in stock 60 x 60cm strobist softbox that will allow your to use your speedlight or off camera flash. This will give you a highly portable studio lighting setup we also have a flash bracket that will let you mount your flash gun, it will also accepts studio umbrellas. You will find these in our new strobist accessories category

800Ws Studio Flash

Smick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:38:05 +0000

We have increased our photography lighting range to include 800Ws studio flash kits, these studio flash heads are very powerful with a guide number of 88. The flash heads are robust with a metal case and fan cooling and have a digital readout showing the power settings. This model is based on our popular E400 studio flash lighting (which is also back in stock) and has the same controls and features but a lot more powerful.

Single Head 800W Studio Flash Kit

2 Head 800W Studio Flash Kit

3 Head 800w Studio Flash Kit

Photography Lighting Kit

Smick — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:56:57 +0000

We have had a very busy week trying to keep up with orders, invariably people want their items quickly so we do our best not to fall behind. We have been extra busy as we have had a big shipment of photography lighting kit and it takes time to organise and get the warehouse looking tidy and organised again.

In our continuous lighting and video lighting categories we have our quad lighting heads and kits back in stock, also the high power softbox kits and in acessories category the 4 way bulb adaptor.

In the studio flash lighting we have the 180W/s studio flash heads and studio flash kits back in stock, the 400Ws studio flash heads and studio flash kits are also available. For anybody wanting more power than this we have in stock and hope to get them listed soon 800Ws studio flash kits these are digital heads exactly the same as the 400W heads but just more powerful and hope to have some video’s of these in the near future.

Our studio flash softboxes stock was getting low but we have increased our stock of 80 x 120cm, 120cm octagonal and 60 x 90cm Elinchrom fit and Bowens fit softboxes.

Don’t forget our special offers category, up till the end of February we have on offer Redhead lighting kit, Trilight continuous lighting kit, very large background support, heavy duty lightstand and the very large 150 x 200cm silver gold popup reflector.

Don’t forget to look at our video tutorials and product overview video’s just on the right hand side of this page.

Portrait Photography with Continuous Lighting

Smick — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:16 +0000

Gavin Hoey explores with the use of our 3 head super softbox continuous lighting kit to take portraits and shows different effects that can be achieved. This is an alternative to studio flash for taking portraits, the main advantage is that you see what you get which is good for beginners.

It uses energy saving compact fluorescent balanced daylight bulbs which means that they produce great light and not much heat compared with redhead type tungsten lighting. Suitable for not only portrait photography but it can be used as video lighting and for product photography.

3 head super softbox kit

2 head super softbox kit

Super softbox head

Photographic Reflector

Smick — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:59:02 +0000

Photography reflectors are used to add or subtract light from your subject, they can be used for all types of photography, and it is the most versatile piece of photography lighting equipment you can have. For still photography or video, and could be used indoors or outdoors. Using the reflector outdoors will help you reduce contrast in very bright sunny conditions that tend to cast harsh shadows, reflecting light back into the shadows.

Many photographers use photographic reflectors to add the light to their subject in order to get rid of unwanted shadows and also to add some warm tones using the gold reflectors. There are many different kinds and sizes of reflectors, but here are the basic types to keep in mind.

Silver reflectors really help to increase the specular highlights of your subject, giving an image a higher contrast a gold reflector used to introduce warm tones most used in portrait pictures.

The most versatile are the 5 in 1 reflectors which have a zip off cover giving you different reflective surfaces gold, silver, white black and diffuser. Black is not really a reflector but actually does the opposite by stop unwanted reflections in your subject. Our range go from 80cm circular reflectors up to 200 x 150 cm gold/silver reflector something for everyone.

In the studio you may need some way to support the reflector and get it in the correct position, we have reflector holding arms and reflector holding arm kits.

Reflectors

Reflector holding arm

Reflector holding kit

200 x 150cm Large Gold silver reflector now on special offer until the end of February

Continuous lighting kit super softbox

Smick — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:40:18 +0000

Here is our latest video produced by Gavin Hoey gives an overview of our super softbox studio lighting kit. Popular for video lighting and for still portrait lighting.

We continue to expand our range of continuous lighting kits and also all our photography lighting range.

Reductions on Studio Lighting Equipment

Smick — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:07:53 +0000

We have some special offers in our Special offer category we have added some offers that run through to the end of February.

The very large gold silver reflector is 200cm x 150cm we are given £10.00 off now making it exceptional value, indoors or out this will be a great addition to your photography lighting accessories. We have also reduced the very large background support it has three bars giving the flexibility to have 3 backdrops this has a reduction of £20.00, wether you are using it for video lighting or for studio flash lighting it is very sturdy and will last a long time even in the toughest environments.

We have reduced redhead lighting the 3 head redhead lighting kit is reduced by £15.00

Softbox Bowens s type fit or Elinchrom fit

Smick — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:39:51 +0000

We have a large range of softboxes ranging in size from 40 x 40cm up to 150cm octagonal softbox.

The photographic softbox has grown in popularity it is a very efficient light modifier, it is used to soften light and with the built internal reflector maximises the reflected light.

Our small softboxes 40 x 40cm, 60 x 40cm and 60 x 60cm are for small studio flash units such as our M180w flash heads, we then have 60 x 90cm and 80 x 120cm rectangular softboxes.

The other type of softbox we supply are the octagonal softboxes which will give a pleasing highlight in the subjects eyes. The octagonal sizes are 95cm, 120cm and 150cm.

These come in three versions, the first with a universal speedring that will fit many studio flash heads then the Bowens s type fit which fit all Bowens heads and heads that use this fitting like our more powerful studio flash heads which all have this fitting. The last version is the Elinchrom fitting which will fit all modern Elinchrom heads. There are some sizes of softbox which we don’t have all the softbox speedrings.

Softboxes

Rectangular softboxes Bowens fit and Elinchrom fit

95cm Octagonal Softboxes

120cm and 150cm Softboxes

3 Point Video Lighting Tutorial

Smick — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:34:43 +0000

This video adds to our photography lighting series and shows our Super Softbox 3 head Lighting for Digital and Video lighting kit in operation showing the classic 3 point lighting setup. Presented by Gavin Hoey he also includes how to shoot some other options some basic Video Lighting setups. This same lighting can be used for still photography and this kit is powerful enough for portrait photography, the same techniques can be used on any of our 3 head continuous lighting kits or our 3 head studio flash kits.