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 October 10th, 2010 by Smick
Gavin Hoey has produced a great video showing the Lightbank Softbox and how to use it to give a balanced shot mixing it with daylight. Our Lightbank Softbox is a continuous lighting kit that incorporates a softbox, using 7 x 50w energy efficient 5400k daylight bulbs and a 100cm diameter softbox. The compact daylight fluorescent [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, daylight bulb, gavin hoey, photography lighting, studio lighting, video 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 23rd, 2010 by Smick
We have been out of stock of the lightweight boom arm, this caused the 3 head continuous lighting and 3 head video lighting kits to be out of stock, well now it’s back. The 3 head redhead lighting kit and all the 3 head softbox lighting are all now back in stock. The very popular [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, daylight bulb, photography lighting, studio lighting, video 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 June 8th, 2010 by Smick
We have two new wheely good studio lighting bags, sorry about that but they do have wheels and were calling them wheely’s they have a pull out handle so that you can drag them around easily. If you have a lot of gear then you should consider one of these studio cases. The smaller of [...]
Tags: photography lighting, studio bag, studio case, studio 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