Lighting a group

Ann McRae

I am set to do team and individual photos for 11 soccer teams Friday and Saturday. I hope to do all of them outdoors in natural lighting. However, if it is raining, we have a building to use as backup. I've been in it - it is a small storage area, with ugly taupe walls - no long uninterrupted expanse either. So I will have to buy some kind of cloth for a backdrop.

Lighting is overhead fluoescent, high, barred windows. So I will need some lighting.

Is my money best spent on a flash or on lights?

This is a $1200 payout, so I can use some of the money to buy lights.

ann

Nikolai

Ann,

Ann McRae wrote:

This is a $1200 payout, so I can use some of the money to buy lights.
ann

I'd say: decide on the whole system you want to have eventually, and start with buying parts of it. Unlike lenses, lights are kinda specialty items, so you will find it hard to sell your old ones quickly.
Two lights will eat all all your payout and then some (unless you go for cheap AC + wired). I'd get one wireless (plus pole + diffusor, etc. it adds up VERY quickly )
HTH

Ann McRae

Well, Nik, keep your fingers crossed for me - weather forecast is for sun and warmth, not rain. I'll take grey skies, just not rain. So I think these will happen outdoors. (hope, hope, hope) Then I can spend the money on a lens or a workshop or new car tires or new furniture or taxes...........

ann

Nikolai wrote:

I'd say: decide on the whole system you want to have eventually, and start with buying parts of it. Unlike lenses, lights are kinda specialty items, so you will find it hard to sell your old ones quickly.
Two lights will eat all all your payout and then some (unless you go for cheap AC + wired). I'd get one wireless (plus pole + diffusor, etc. it adds up VERY quickly )
HTH