Posted December 23rd, 2010 by Smick
We have been out of stock of our 60cm Strobist softbox now for several months and its been agony waiting for the supplies to be replenished, I am pleased to say that it is now back in stock and we are keeping the price the same until 3rd of January when it will have to [...]
Tags: photography lighting, softbox, strobist, studio flash
Posted November 30th, 2010 by Smick
The humble umbrella softbox is sometimes a much better option than a conventional softbox and at the moment is on special. It will fit all makes and sizes of studio flash equipment, it will fit all that can accept an 8mm shaft umbrella. Can be used with cool working daylight bulbs, slave flash units, speedlights [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, photography lighting, softbox, strobist, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted November 3rd, 2010 by Smick
The mains powered slave flash unit can be overlooked but they are an excellent addition to your studio lighting kit, it has a test button and a sync outlet and comes complete with a sync cable. The word slave means they they are triggered by any other flash unit so can be used with other [...]
Tags: flash lighting, photography lighting, portrait photography, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted September 2nd, 2010 by Smick
Our very large heavy duty boom arm is on special until 15th September, this is really a solid piece of kit and could take the heaviest of use. Once the lighting head is attached its position and angle can be adjusted from the controls at the back using a wheel to change the angle. There [...]
Tags: boom arm, continuous lighting, lightstand, photography lighting, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted July 20th, 2010 by Smick
We have some offers on some of our studio lighting and Studio lighting accessories. Bowens Fit Beauty Dish, this is silvered and 42cm in diameter, gives great light for that classic beauty lighting. The 101cm umbrella softbox this is an alternative to the white translucent umbrella it contains the light so no light spill. A [...]
Tags: flash lighting, photography lighting, studio bag, studio case, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted June 20th, 2010 by Smick
A grey backdrop you may ask what use is it, well the grey backdrop is the most versatile photographic backdrop you can get. You can obviously keep it grey but you can also make it black, would you believe that you could also make it white and if you can make it white then you [...]
Tags: backdrop, continuous lighting, gavin hoey, muslin backdrop, photography lighting, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted June 16th, 2010 by Smick
Checkout our special offers category. These offers are for June and will run until the end of June but may be withdrawn earlier. The Lightbank Softbox 2 head continuous lighting kit suitable for video and digital is reduced by £19.00, in the backgrounds and backdrops category the black and white popup backdrop is reduced by [...]
Tags: backdrop, continuous lighting, photography lighting, product photography, studio flash, studio lighting, video lighting
Posted May 27th, 2010 by Smick
We are very pleased to present this video which compares 2 powerful quality professional studio flash heads and thanks to Gavin Hoey who runs through the functions, explains them in a straight forward and easy to understand manner. The 400Ws E400 and the 800ws E800 fall between our SD studio flash heads 300Ws and 600Ws, [...]
Tags: flash lighting, gavin hoey, photography lighting, portrait photography, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted May 15th, 2010 by Smick
We have just launched our premium studio lighting bag / case, this is a soft bag with rigid sides and reinforced corners. It has wheels and a handle on top for easy transportation and its big. Its well padded and has internal dividers that attach with Velcro and has two large pockets on the front. [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, photography lighting, redhead lighting, studio bag, studio flash
Posted April 11th, 2010 by Smick
This new video tutorial shows how to use a studio flash head with 120cm octagonal softbox as a single light source for portrait photography, presented by Gavin Hoey he explains in simple straightforward terms exactly how the softbox works it works. Showing how the soft light from the softbox wraps around the subject giving a [...]
Tags: gavin hoey, photography lighting, portrait photography, softbox, studio flash, studio lighting