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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 125663" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>There are lots of things you will have to eventually consider. How many flashes are you looking to use? Are you going to be using them in manual or automatic and are you going to be using something to soften the light like a softbox or umbrella? I will confess I don't know much about the lastest Nikon SB's which &quot;talk&quot; to the camera and whether or not you can set them up with different ratios. But for portraiture it is best to try to use your flashes in manual, at least indoors, so you can have the most control over lighting ratios and such. Of course to do that, you will really need to have a flash meter, none of which are cheap, even used. They can range in price from a couple hundred to five or six hundred dollars depending on the make and how sophisticated it is.&nbsp; I suppose you could use the picture preview on your camera as a makeshift flash meter and just keep adjusting the strobes until things look right to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 125663, member: 12827"] There are lots of things you will have to eventually consider. How many flashes are you looking to use? Are you going to be using them in manual or automatic and are you going to be using something to soften the light like a softbox or umbrella? I will confess I don't know much about the lastest Nikon SB's which "talk" to the camera and whether or not you can set them up with different ratios. But for portraiture it is best to try to use your flashes in manual, at least indoors, so you can have the most control over lighting ratios and such. Of course to do that, you will really need to have a flash meter, none of which are cheap, even used. They can range in price from a couple hundred to five or six hundred dollars depending on the make and how sophisticated it is. I suppose you could use the picture preview on your camera as a makeshift flash meter and just keep adjusting the strobes until things look right to you. [/QUOTE]

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