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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 183566" data-attributes="member: 6277"><p>Very tall ceilings then on both. That is a big plus in a studio. You need room to raise the light stands with umbrellas on them high enough to get a proper down angle on them when shooting a person standing up.</p><p></p><p>I had a in home studio many years ago and it was nice. 20X25 with 16 ft ceiling. Office and darkroom attached and had a separate entrance so it was separated from the main part of the house. </p><p></p><p>The base lighting setup is Key, Fill, Hair and back light. Key and fill at 45° down and 45° off center. Back hitting the background and the hair light. Key twice and bright and the fill. I call this base because it is JUST A STARTING POINT. </p><p></p><p>I assume you want to go all flash with the studio? I have not done that with the Nikon CLS system but with my old Film Olympus I had a full Olympus lighting system that was wired to the camera and would operate much like the Nikon system did. I read the light off the film plane and would get perfect exposure every time. I had a white umbrella and a silver umbrella and the ration of light was almost 2 to 1 so I could set the light stands at almost exactly the same distance from the subject. I also had a flash meter that I used to find tune the lights with. We have it much easier at this time using digital since we can shoot and then look at histogram and the actual picture and then fine tune from there. Buy more Nikon SB-*** or the equivalent iTTL flash units. to fill out the system. I am wondering if the SB-400 might be a good choice for back and hair?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 183566, member: 6277"] Very tall ceilings then on both. That is a big plus in a studio. You need room to raise the light stands with umbrellas on them high enough to get a proper down angle on them when shooting a person standing up. I had a in home studio many years ago and it was nice. 20X25 with 16 ft ceiling. Office and darkroom attached and had a separate entrance so it was separated from the main part of the house. The base lighting setup is Key, Fill, Hair and back light. Key and fill at 45° down and 45° off center. Back hitting the background and the hair light. Key twice and bright and the fill. I call this base because it is JUST A STARTING POINT. I assume you want to go all flash with the studio? I have not done that with the Nikon CLS system but with my old Film Olympus I had a full Olympus lighting system that was wired to the camera and would operate much like the Nikon system did. I read the light off the film plane and would get perfect exposure every time. I had a white umbrella and a silver umbrella and the ration of light was almost 2 to 1 so I could set the light stands at almost exactly the same distance from the subject. I also had a flash meter that I used to find tune the lights with. We have it much easier at this time using digital since we can shoot and then look at histogram and the actual picture and then fine tune from there. Buy more Nikon SB-*** or the equivalent iTTL flash units. to fill out the system. I am wondering if the SB-400 might be a good choice for back and hair? [/QUOTE]
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