LIGHTING KITS
For a home studio setup, or if you’re shooting indoors on location, there’s no beating the power and versatility of a conventional mains-powered flash kit. Prime options include the likes of the Elinchrom D-Lite and Interfit Honey Badger twin-head kits, which are easy to carry around, yet quick and easy to set up, and simple to use.
The only real problem is if you want the versatility of being able to shoot outdoors, using a flash head to supplement natural daylight. Mains-powered kits won’t be much use if there’s nowhere to plug them in, but there’s a growing range of battery-powered flash heads that are as powerful as most studio heads, and vastly more so than flashguns. When you’re supplementing the sun, or even overpowering it to turn day into night, you’re only likely to need a single flash head, but twin-head kits are also widely available.
The increasingly common third option is to go for a constant light. Traditionally, lamps often used halogen bulbs and ran horrendously hot, but there’s been something of an LED revolution in recent
