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Hi guys, As a portrait photographer I don't get to be photographed very often. However, sometimes (when a model can not turn up for photo shoot) it happens to set the camera and photograph myself - hens the selfie ;) Self portrait with creative lighting by Nikolay Mirchev, on Flickr And if interested to find out how this portrait was captured, I covered the whole process of photographing creative self portrait on my blog.

<p>I just hired a studio to cover a job and because their entire lighting is Bownes Pro I went on to do some research on them. Bownes looks very versatile and very reasonably priced strobes, where you can use monolight also with a battery pack. And yeah the price is very reasonable. </p>

<p>I just came across this one, and it looks like an option: https://vimeo.com/107720501</p>

<p>Thanks guys for your helpful advises, I'm still looking for good value for money lighting. So far Broncolor is my choice, but I won't be rushing with this decision.</p>

<p>If this is true what Urs Recher is saying, I think this will be my choice.<br> big difference in the prices between this two retailers.<br /> http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-broncolor-siros-800-flash-head/p1564588<br /> http://www.procentre.co.uk/sales-lighting-broncolor.php<br /><br /></p>

<p>Thanks for the advice Ellis Vener, the funny thing is that an hour before posting this post I was going trough amazon.co.uk lighting and I saw the Phottix Indra 500TTL.<br> They look a good deal, although a bit expensive I think for a company that just come up out of the nothing. And this is my main reason to wait, although I watched quite few reviews on youtube, for some time as I read on few places that there isn't much of costumer support when something goes busted. <br> By the way they are available to preorder on the uk Calumet, so as you said maybe if they sell well, Calumet for example, may start letting them for hire. </p>

<p>Hello guys,<br> So recently I had an email requesting quote bid for a very nice, Avengers 4 dvd project. This is something new to me, I didn't win the bid but start thinking of more complex setups with very serious costumers. <br> Currently I'm lighting everything with 7 Canon speedlights, but after this email I was thinking that the time has come to get some pro lighting.<br> So long story short I'm looking for advice on something similar to Profoto B1, but slightly cheaper and slightly more powerful than 500w. So basically the ideal factors will be.<br> 1. To have HSS - for this one, and in general, I was looking at the Broncolor range, the only thing is that it says with small text on the bottom that it work with HSS but with some sort of diferent light bulb, and there isn't more explanation. <br> 2. Work with pocketwizards so I can combine them with my speedlights.<br> 3. I think I will be leaning more towards monoblogs as they are the cheaper option and more portable easy to carry for location, and less messy no wires. But feel free to advice/suggest on this too.<br> 4. I have lots of Interfit modifiers which are S fit, so something, or adapter, that will aloud me to use them.<br> 5. Power probably more than 500w.<br> 6. Brand that is popular among the rental shops.<br> So basically my idea is to buy at least two heads, and for more complex shoots to hire whatever I need, but off course to be compatible. I noticed that in London very popular brands among the hire stores are Profoto, Broncolor, Elinchrom and Bowens.<br> Any advice and suggestions are welcome.<br> Thanks,<br> Nikolay.</p>