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Getting resourceful with lighting options

Getting resourceful with lighting options

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Getting resourceful with lighting options

Before you go out and buy a professional lighting rig, a whole soft box and professional lighting equipment, take a look around your house. You probably have really cool options for getting resourceful with the lighting that you already have, such as candles some existing and separate flashes. Desk lamps with these great movable heads and chop lamps with this nice aluminum hood, that's going to give a great reflection. These different options are great for shooting just your small crafts in your, in your private little studio or in your home made light box, they might not look like professional gear but they are usable. So, when you have these different situations, there's some things to keep in mind and one of the things is that a broader lighting surface is going to give you a softer light. So that's one of the reasons that this professional setup is great. Right? It's got this huge surface. But you can make these little tiny desk lamps or actually, yeah, you can make these desk…

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