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Cheap Alternative to Photo Lights

 

I bought  this light from Walmart for $25 to use for studio photos. I liked it so much I bought another. The last twelve images in this blog have been shot with these lights. They are super powerful, light weight, rechargeable, and it has a mount for light stand. Modified with a shoot through umbrella this light gives an even smooth portrait lighting look. Or you could pay $200-$1500  for the professional kind. 

Group Lighting

 For a group shot of say four or five people I would bounce the two LED lights off the white wall behind the camera to even out the light on my subjects and let the two fluorescent lights from above act as hair and fill lighting. Imagine a group posed sitting or standing around this bench for an evenly lit portrait.

Bounce Lighting

Two lights bounced off a white wall.

 

Low Key Portrait

Two light low key profile portrait.   ( Model, Wendy Roberts )

 

Portrait of Wendy

This portrait is pretty much straight out of the camera. A little background retouch. Four light set up, cropped in Photoshop to 1:1

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