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  • inhaler0

    well all this advice is good.... but I mean what do you REALLY want to do? Copy work? flat work? then yea go with that bh link.... it works fine.

    But you really need only 2 lights for that, and prob some foam core...

    make sure all is lit even (if not using a dig. camera, where you can preview your shots, get a meter, and make sure all is on the same f-stop.) 45 degree angles, full coverage... with white cards for fill... but yes.. it takes time to get good results... if you wanted to go absolutely nuts, there are led light panels that give off plenty of light with battery power, so that you could use for other things.

    Last advice, get some sort of dimmer system which you could use with those hot lights (the b and h ones) which you could control at your will.

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