Lighting Kit Importance

Lighting effect for a photography plays a vital role for the awesome outcome. Even a wonderful picture shot with the best camera won't give an astonishing result without proper lighting. We have to invest in the selection of the lighting equipment keeping our idea in mind. So only the studio photographers spend a lot on lighting rather than on camera or its lenses. But instead when people spend on camera and lens, its a wrong approach. Lighting kits decide on the job excellence. We have to know the cruciality of the role of lights in the image outcome.

There is a belief that the studio lighting kits are unaffordable. But with the recent developments, they are not only suitable for studio photographers but can be afforded by a lay man too. At present even portable kits are available which can be easily afforded and handled. A lighting kit is a broad term and when thinking on a investment in it, there a varied number of choices that has to be considered which can be brought from online or regular manufacturers.

Let's now consider the lighting choices that are available:

Crucial Lighting Choices

Normally there are three lighting choices namely the flash, hotlights and cool lights.

Hotlights/ Tungsten lights are actually hot. They are halogen lights with 500-800 watts suitable for shooting videos which requires continuous lights. Even though they are more bright, they are not suitable for shooting photography's. They may cause irritation to the people whom we focus.

Cool Lights are fluorescent lights. They are comfortable lighting kits that gives pleasant experience and are not hot like hotlights. These are suitable at places where daylight is available and in concurrence with the flash. The choice of modifications is restricted.

Flash is the desired choice of the studio photographers and it outruns the limitations of hotlights and cool lights. Hotshoe flashes are the accessory flashguns that fit onto the hotshoe of your camera. It is expedient but the light is insensitive and unpleasing. But when used off-camera by dropping it on a stand, it gives pleasant effects. They are less expensive, handy and powered by batteries

Let's now consider why lighting kits are essential for photography.

An image with lighting effects is often misunderstood to have been morphed using computers. It provides astonishing results. An efficient use of the lights gives awesome outcome

Wide and Slender lights

A broad light diminishes the disparity, curbs the quality and reduces the dimness. Whereas the narrow light is the opposite of this. So our selection of lighting choice depends on the thing that needs to be portrayed

Light dispersal

By using a diffuser, we can scatter the light on the photo shoot and avoid unnecessary heat that is produced due to the usage of the lighting kits. A diffuser can be a white cloth or a lucid plastic.

Positioning the light kit

Light and the background are considerable choices that cause the effect of the portrait. We need to position our lights appropriately to coincide with the background to provide stunning results. The effect may not be good even if is placed too close or too far. Apt positioning is necessary.

3 - D Effect

By placing lights in different places, we get a 3-d effect of our potrait. When lights are placed on all positions focusing the object, we get shadows which replicates a 3 dimensional effect

Focus of the lights

The focus of the lights should match the object. It may vary from object to object. By keeping the light close to the lens, we can restrain the creases on the face of the person. Sometimes we may have to increase the coverage to confine the light on the object. This can be done by backlighting and front lighting.

When a person believes that a perfect picture can never be portrayed without proper lighting kits, its high time for him to look into the choice of buying the lighting kits. An adequate research has to be done to finalize on the purchase of the lighting kits that is best suitable for them.