Posted March 15th, 2011 by Smick
In this tutorial Gavin Hoey explores the use of shallow depth of field to shoot atmospheric portraits in the studio using continuous lighting. He’s using one of our Lightbank Softbox lighting units with daylight bulbs and explains just how you can achieve the same with examples along the way. Along with the Lightbank Softbox is [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, daylight bulb, gavin hoey, photography lighting, portrait photography, studio lighting, video lighting
Posted March 6th, 2011 by Smick
We are taking money off most of our studio lighting bags / cases and also giving money to Comic Relief. Large Stand Bag is down to £23.00 and we will give one pound to Comic relief for everyone sold. Studio Bag Medium is down to £30.50 and we will give one pound to Comic relief [...]
Tags: photography lighting, studio bag, studio case, studio lighting
Posted February 27th, 2011 by Smick
Take one of our 400ws studio flash heads and a 120cm octagonal softbox, we also sell 150cm octagonal softboxes and see how you can achieve a soft wrap around light by following this delightful video anyone can achieve. In the video tutorial the versatility you can get with just a simple set up, add another [...]
Tags: flash lighting, gavin hoey, photography lighting, portrait photography, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted January 28th, 2011 by Smick
Were here again stocks of a lot of our continuous lighting / video lighting has almost run out, we ordered in plenty of time and the new stock should be sitting in our warehouse right now. Our supplier had a problem which meant they shipped it a month late, very frustrating, finally its on the [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, daylight bulb, photography lighting, product photography, studio lighting, video lighting
Posted January 5th, 2011 by Smick
We are now in a new year with VAT going up to 20% making things a bit more expensive we have decided to add extra value to our popular 3 head super softbox kit and the 2 head Supersoftbox Kit. We are going to include the 2.6m stands for the price of the standard 1.9m [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, daylight bulb, gavin hoey, photography lighting, studio lighting, video lighting
Posted December 27th, 2010 by Smick
Our SD300 300Ws and SD600 600Ws, studio flash heads and kits are now back in stock. They are robust heads and very simple to operate making them a great choice for the enthusiast and the professional, we have sold these over three years now and get some glowing feedback for them. We also have the [...]
Tags: flash lighting, photography lighting, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted December 20th, 2010 by Smick
We have a new product the multi purpose boom arm it start off as a 4 metre high light stand and transforms into a boom arm. The boom arm parts slots into the main tube of the stand, it then raises up and tilts on the angle bracket. It has a counterbalance bag for you [...]
Tags: boom arm, lightstand, photography lighting, studio lighting
Posted December 8th, 2010 by Smick
The Lightbank Softbox is a very powerful lighting system ideal for video lighting and still digital photography. It uses 7 x 50w energy efficient daylight bulbs that emit 4 x the amount of light that a normal bulb gives off, they are relatively cool unlike tungsten halogen lighting that get very hot. Another advantage over [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, daylight bulb, photography lighting, portrait photography, studio lighting, video lighting
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
