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Message: <blockquote data-quote="singlerosa_RIP" data-source="post: 221025" data-attributes="member: 15556"><p>Depends on what you want to do, how serious you want to get and how good you want your gear to be.  You can get a 3 light kit with lights, stands, umbrellas, triggers and a case for a couple hundred bucks (bottom of the line).  The sky's the limit from there.  Drawback to studio lighting is that it's built for the studio and might not take advantage of Nikon's CLS.   Speedlights give you portability but can cost more and normally don't give you modeling lighting.  I evolved into the speedlight camp and have 3 SB-800s with a variety of stands and light modifiers as well as a few different types of triggers (RF and IR).  I've shot many outdoor sessions with one or two speedlights and umbrellas.  If I had studio lighting, I would have had to haul an expensive battery pack and cords....</p></blockquote><p></p>