Lighting Kit
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I like the Lowell stuff too.... just make sure you don't put away omni lights when they're still hot, little plastic parts may melt in your bag..
If you're shooting products, read the chapter on "the family of angles" in Lighting, Science and Magic. Do the tests according to the diagrams over and over again. learn how to light wine bottles, wine glasses, and things like an egg on a white table cloth...
A couple of Scrims, (semi-translucent diffusion panels), white foamcore, black foamcore, a whole lots of clamps and stands and a lot of time testing systematically is what you'll need to do....
That said, a softbox is good for a documentary interview...
Note that softboxes for video are made of different cloth than those just for stills, (to avoid a fire)... try Calumet, I like theirs more than most of the photoflex ones... speedrings for video are sometimes hard to find...
- make sure you get a few lights with bard doors, or at least get some black aluminum foilvaxorcist