Photography Thailand Forum

[boazbangkok]

hello everyone,
new to these forums, and actualy to the photography world as well.

i am trying to get together an amatour home studio.
actualy i have a nice home studio but for paintings and my work, now i am trying to put in a photography "corner"
i was thinking about hanging a curtain along the wall, concealing bookshelves etc, so i will have a solid background,
but am a bit perplexed about the lighting.
it will be mainly portraits, or half body (unfortunatly, the space is a little limited)

can anyone point me to a relyable source or store here in bangkok,
where i can purchase not-too-expensive lights (hot lights or strobes....at this point its more a matter of budjet)
how many lights should i get? are two standing lights and a reflector enough?
what should be abudjet for such a project? (remember, this is for artsy stuff....so no revenue is expected at this point...)

by the way, using only a fujifilm 9500s which is not a very sophisticated camera so control of the lighting is very important.

will be thankfull for any input on this.

Best regards,
Boaz Zippor
Bangkok
www.geocities.com/boaz_zippor

[yish]

Shalom Boaz,
you may use clip on lights, cilp on lights with reflectors and some foem core and you have a perfectly useble stodio lighting for your use. dont forget to cover the windows so the daylight effect your lighting colors.
you can go much fancier then this (And i do) however this will answere you needs and not break the bank...
cheers
yishay