Setting up some digital photography studio lighting is easier than you may think.
There are a lot of different ways to do this and here are a few ways to help you to get started: If you are wanting to get into studio/portrait photography but do not want to spend a lot of money initially then you could start with a good basic lighting setup.
This would include a background stand, some background paper, at least one 500 or 750 watt light, alight stand, an umbrella and one reflector.
You could get all this for under $300.
This setup will get you started and give you enough for some nice basic light in most studios situations.
If you want to go for a strobe, you will need to invest a bit more money.
Somewhere in the vicinity of about $3000 can be spent to get two lights, some soft boxes, and the power supplies.
Should you notwant to go with hot lights that are constantly on, you could go for a low cost set-up that includes two light stands, two flash/umbrella holders, two Vivitar 285HVs , two sync cords, a sync splitter, a grey card, two softbox umbrellas, and two shoot through umbrellas.
If you hunt around, you can get most of these items second hand on eBay for about $200.
Also get a background and you can also do indoor posed shots and portraits.
You will also want to consider getting a hot shoe converter so that you can get the sync cables to hook up.
Setting up digital photography studio lighting doesn't have to cost a lot of money for the first-timer.
It all depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it.
Hopefully this guide has given you some ideas on how to setup some digital photography studio lighting.