Flash Power Packs for Photo Shoot

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Hi, I m Rob Mitchell. Here again for Expert Village. And we're continuing on now with building your studio. And we are going to discuss the strobe kit, strobe lighting, flash lighting. What we have here is a very portable Novatron 400 watt second power pack with two lights. Let's back up a little bit, and talk about power packs. Power packs are just what they say, it's the pack that supplies the power to the lights that are going to light your subjects for portraits, fashion, or commercial product photography. They measure the power output of these packs in watt seconds. Suffice to say that a 400 watt second pack such as this, doesn't have nearly as much power as a 2400 watt second, or 4800 watt second power pack. So the bigger your studio, the more lights you are going to need, the more lights you are going to be running off the power pack, the watt seconds you should get. I love this little kit because it travels well. I've taken it all over the world with me. This particular light box power pack will take up to four flash heads. Now it delivers 400 watt seconds of power. You will see about that later, exactly what we are getting. One flash head is going to take up 400 watt second. If we put two flash heads in there, we're going to divide that power in two, then you get 200 watt seconds per side. Four lights, your going to be down to 100 watt seconds per light. So you can see what happens. The more lights, the more flash heads that you run off this, your power is decreasing by the number of flash heads. The flash heads, which are what delivers the lights when the flash goes off. Here's a simple one here. We have another one over here mounted with the umbrella. If the flash head is pointed directly at your subject, your getting a very strong, very harsh light. For what we are going to be doing in the studio here. We are going to be bouncing it out of an umbrella to get a nice, soft, diffused light. So it's very basic. You got a hole in the bottom, a mount that clamps right on top of the light stand. Such as you see here. We can take the light, we aim it, we can turn it, we can move it around, this is how the umbrella slides in and out.

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