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<blockquote data-quote="bluebird" data-source="post: 188365" data-attributes="member: 16097">Having a baby and living in an area with terrible weather is forcing my portrait efforts indoors. Despite a house with lots of natural light, my current setup can't keep up with my wiggling baby and I'm getting a lot of motion blur due to the slow shutter speeds.The current setup: Nikon D600 in aperture priority mode with 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G VR AF-S lens. An &quot;average&quot; indoor portrait shot ends up at about 50mm, f3.5, ISO 6400, 1/20s. I'm considering adding a LumoPro LP180 speedlight on a stand with a shoot-through umbrella, slaved to the pop-up flash. The other option I'm looking at is switching to a 35mm f1.8 to get wider apertures and thus more light, but I'm worried that it won't get enough extra light and that the narrower depth of field will make capturing my subject even harder as she gets more active. I can't afford to make both upgrades at once, so which is likely to give me more bang for the buck?Should I be looking at continuous umbrella lighting or softboxes instead?Thanks in advance!Megan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bluebird, post: 188365, member: 16097"] Having a baby and living in an area with terrible weather is forcing my portrait efforts indoors. Despite a house with lots of natural light, my current setup can't keep up with my wiggling baby and I'm getting a lot of motion blur due to the slow shutter speeds. The current setup: Nikon D600 in aperture priority mode with 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G VR AF-S lens. An "average" indoor portrait shot ends up at about 50mm, f3.5, ISO 6400, 1/20s. I'm considering adding a LumoPro LP180 speedlight on a stand with a shoot-through umbrella, slaved to the pop-up flash. The other option I'm looking at is switching to a 35mm f1.8 to get wider apertures and thus more light, but I'm worried that it won't get enough extra light and that the narrower depth of field will make capturing my subject even harder as she gets more active. I can't afford to make both upgrades at once, so which is likely to give me more bang for the buck? Should I be looking at continuous umbrella lighting or softboxes instead? Thanks in advance! Megan [/QUOTE]

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