Photography Lighting Ideas - Choose the Right Light

Photography Lighting Ideas

Every now and again somebody gets the bright idea to put me in a room of aspiring young photographers. I’m pretty sure it’s all a party of a Scared-Straight program designed to frighten young adults into “real jobs” like IT support and business management. These classes always take place at some ungodly hour like 9am and I’m pretty sure I look every inch of a ten mile hard road. Since Uncle Sam and I parted ways I simply see no need to do more before 9am than most folks do all day. For that reason, you will never find a photo of a sunrise in any of my portfolios. Yup, looking at me in the early morning is no doubt a dose of Dickens-style, Christmas-yet-to-come kind of terror for a classroom full of wanna-be photogs. I’m not sure if I’m offended by being offered up as a deterrent or if I agree with it. But nonetheless, I try to give it to ‘em straight and answer the questions to the best of my sleep-deprived abilities.

Thankfully, instead of a deep dive into business practices and marketing strategies, the conversations always lead back to photography gear, which is a topic I can pontificate on while reeling from the effects of sleep deprivation. Need proof? Watch the video attached to this blog and tell me I wasn’t half asleep when we recorded it. Just kidding! As I was saying; in my classes the topics always swing back to what flashes to buy and why. So I decided to put together this video and play it for my early morning students and catch 15 minutes worth of zzz’s.

In all seriousness, it is my sincerest hope that you find this video about which photography lighting to choose for smash cake photos helpful. Each of the flashes we go over in this video is a flash that I use in my own studio to create smash cake photos for my clients. I picked each light based on its usefulness and my extreme hatred of needlessly wasting money. Your business’s lifeblood is its cash flow. Dumping money on name brand gear when there are other quality options for less money is a great way to send your studio to an early grave. So give this video a look and decide for yourself which of there flashes will work best for you. But do us both a favor, don’t watch this video before 9am - we artists need our beauty sleep

Lights featured in this video:

Godox 50 watt Speedlight

Godox AD200 200 watt speedlight

Godox Witstro AD600B

It is important to note that Godox rebranded their lights for Adorama.com to sell under the Flashpoint Evolv and Flashpoint Explor brand names. In this video we showcased a mix of Godox and Flashpoint lights. All lights in this video were manufactured by Godox and are exactly the same except for their name. Here are the link to of each of the above lights that were rebranded under the flashpoint name.

Flashpoint Zoom 50 watt Speedlight

Flashpoint Evolv 200 watt speedlight

Flashpoint Explor 600 Watt Mono Light

Thanks for staying awake long enough to read this,

Daniel