john_valjean

<p>My old flashes died on me, and instead of repairing them I like to buy a new setup. In the past I used the strobes mainly for my kids's portraits and they worked great. I used 2 of them most of the time. Now, I volunteer to take team pictures of basketball local team and lighting at the gym is a bit challenging. Can you guys recommend a setup, I am looking to stay under the $600 range. Thanks in advance.</p>

<p>Hello all,<br> I think my ego is hurt a bit. My kids play hockey and I take pictures of their games, I make sure to take pictures of the whole team and players and I always share with parents. Never one person said thanks. OK fine. last week we went to a tournament, and there was couple of guys with cameras that showed up to each game and took bunch of pictures, loaded them on PC with touchscreen displays for parents to see right after the game. The pictures sucked, some are blurry, some our of focus, some need to be cropped etc. Honestly my pictures are 200% better, modesty apart. Parents got so excited and started to ask if the team wants to buy these pictures at ridiculous prices, some of them in fact did. <br> <br />I was really hurt, I mean here I am sharing awesome shots of the kids for free, but parents are getting excited for bad pictures and they are paying for them????<br> <br />So if I charge them for my pictures, then my pictures would be better ????</p>