I started an adventurous “on a budget” project shooting with speedlights only. Low costs include: (no) studio rental fee, ideas for shooting at home, and – of course – low/no model fees. I identified photo styles that allow you to work with your partner/wife/friends, newcomers, and even with models on TFP basis for specific concepts.
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Excellent teaser for a very interesting project Dan. I’m looking forward to seeing more on this next week!
Thank you Joe!
I hope it is not only perceived as a “teaser” as at least the paragraph and chart “Low/No Model Fees” <> Styles gives a clear indication, insights and food for thoughts where to save model fee costs (and even work potentially for free with partners).
I hope people are actually reading here and not “just” the video 🙂
Best, Dan
Hi Dan,
Great article. Gives new aspiring photographers a chance to break into this profession.
You should mentioned an affordable alternative to speedlites and flashes. As there are a lot of Kit light packages.
Where by a new photographer, gets three tripods, three softboxes, three strobes etc
900w DE-300 Flash kit Photography Studio Strobe light 3 x 300w heads
Ebay overview: https://goo.gl/Aa61k5
Great adult & glamour resource photography website.
Regards
Eugene
A great piece, I got a couple of awesome ideas viewing it, as one who has no studio and shoots outdoor mainly, I can use some of the things seen indoors.
Thanks!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/88427494@N06/albums
Hello Izzy, thanks for reading & commenting. Glad you found some inspiration.
Q: The Flickr link you posted leads to your outdoor/travel photos. Any link you can provide us doing women photography?
Best,
Dan
Hi Dan,
I love the concept with speedlights and I mostly shoot with this kind of light too. However, what bothers me sometimes ist that the charging of the speedlights, after a shooting period of about 15 minutes, is getting slower and slower. This ends in having no flash in a shot and have to repeat it. So, uique solution by now is changing batteries very often. Do you have another solution for that??
Sergio
I sometimes use older Nikon speedlights for a compact lighting solution. I use Nikon’s external battery packs with them. In addition to extending the battery life, it speeds up the shot to shot recycling times. The other thing that you can do is to gang the speedlights together. That way each individual speedlight is not working as hard and uses less battery power. (Of course, it does add to the bulk, complexity of your setups, and overall cost, so there is a trade-off.)
Hi Sergio, thanks for reading, commenting and your question.
For working pace and even for consistency in lighting you definitely need to “upgrade” your speedlight shooting approach.
In my opinion there are 2 basic different ways to do that:
1) Buy a (big) bunch of rechargeable AA batteries and have them ready on set. So you just change the batteries within the flashes itself. This is not extremely practical but on the other hand it is not a big time loss either.
But depending on how many batteries you plan to buy it gets rather expensive for an inconvenient solution.
2) Buy external battery packs. Of course all depends on the speedlights/brands you use but almost for all of them you can buy rather inexpensive 3rd party brand battery pack. They really last ultra-long and are just awesome to work with.
Here a few ideas, different brands:
– https://goo.gl/b8zLTy
– https://goo.gl/vQePYs
– https://goo.gl/aLTywn
– https://goo.gl/uad1Gg
I hope this gives a first idea for your future powerful speedlight shooting 🙂
#ShootBold,
Dan
Very interesting project Dan. Keep up the good work.
Looking forward for the video course….
Cheers.
Hello FZ, thanks for reading and your kind words.
It will be an ultra-comprehensive, unique eWorkbook with all sorts of blueprints but most helpful to explore low budget strategies and creative imagery (incl. all tech specs, premium 3D lighting illustrations and much much more).
🙂 Dan
Hi Dan,
Just bought your creative-nudes-on-a-budget ebook.
Packed with loads of useful info and guidance notes.
The studio layout diagrams are exceptional with guidance notes. Wow!!!
I’d highly recommend it to other photographers.
A very insightful 350 pages with extra’s.
Another great ebook Dan.
100% recommend this ebook.
Eugene
http://www.eugenestruthers.com/
Hello Eugene,
Thanks for your comment and supporting my latest guide! Very helpful and appreciated.
I invite you to post once some photos based on and evolved from ideas for the book.
Best, Dan