If you’ve ever wanted to take portrait-quality photos, now is the perfect time to get started. With the weather still chilly, taking family pictures outdoors won’t receive smiling cooperation from your subjects! With a few key pieces of equipment, you’ll be ready to shoot portrait quality photos in the comfort of your home. No longer will you have to settle for off-center, spur-of-the-moment shots when family come to visit. Instead, you’ll have the tools you need to create your own personal portrait studio experience, allowing you to give high quality pictures to loved ones.
If you run a home business that requires putting pictures of products on your website, a home studio can greatly improve your product photography and bring you more interest and sales from prospective buyers. It just takes a few pieces of equipment (that are easy to set up and store) to transform a living room into a personal portrait studio.
To make things even easier, consider basic studio kit to get it started.
The Basic 3-Head Kit includes:
• 2 -160ws flash heads
with built in slave, modeling lamp, variable power, audible
ready signal and replaceable flash tube
• 2 – Deluxe light stands
• 1 – White umbrellas
• 1 – Silver umbrella
• Deluxe carrying bag
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This article was very attractive to me in title, but it really told us nothing. What ARE the key pieces of equipment, and what should we do to affordably set up a home studio… what are the lighting aspects needed, angles, positioning, backdrops, etc.