800Ws Studio Flash

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 [...]

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Photography Lighting Kit

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 [...]

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Portrait Photography with Continuous Lighting

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.
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Softbox Bowens s type fit or Elinchrom fit

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 [...]

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3 Point Video Lighting Tutorial

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 [...]

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Happy New Year from smick.co.uk

We would like to wish every visitor to our site a happy new year, we are a specialist in Photography Lighting we have an extensive range and will be adding to it in 2010, we are the preferred supplier to many companies and institutions see our thank you page.
Our range of Studio Lighting Equipment starts [...]

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Continuous Lighting Vs Studio Flash

How do you decide what is best for you, continuous lighting or Studio Flash, well Gavin Hoey has written on his blog and explores the pros and cons of each lighting method. Hopefully this will give you and understanding of how they work and what would be best for you. Continuous vs Flash

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Continuous Digital and Video Lighting

Our softbox continuous studio lighting kits are available again in 3 sizes 60 x 40cm, 70 x 50cm and 55cm octagonal, these are great lights for digital lighting , video lighting and Product Photography. Take a look at the video they are featured in, www.smick.co.uk/index.php/information/videos/chromakey-lighting/
We also have some new more robust softbox lighting kits we [...]

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Studio Flash Lighting Kits

We now have back in stock the 300ws studio flash lighting kits and 600ws studio flash kits, solid and reliable we have been stocking these for a while. We have a number of professional users and the feedback we get from them is that they love them, with fast recycling times and robust to take [...]

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Trilight Video Lighting Kit

We have the Trilight video lighting kit on special offer for a limited period, it uses 3 – 50 watt balanced daylight bulbs in each head, these are compact fluorescent bulbs with a colour temperature of 5400k to give great daylight light. The kit comes with umbrellas which help to give this kit a large [...]

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