Lamps vs Flash

[papeter]

I have been give a job by a friend to photograph childrens clothing for her website. I saw on ebay that many people are selling Fluorescent Daylight Balanced Photo Bulb kits
with Softboxes. I can buy 2 stands plus 10 x 45 Watt 5000k Compact bulbs plus softboxes for £139.00.

Am I better having this lighting system rather than bounce flash into brollies?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using a NIkon Coolpix P100.

Thanks



Peter

[OsmosisStudios]

For stationary objects like clothing, hotlights like these are fine. Flash is best for people or anything that moves.

[papeter]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

For stationary objects like clothing, hotlights like these are fine. Flash is best for people or anything that moves.

Thanks, excellent advice.

[jml79]

looking at the P100, I don't see a hot shoe and I doubt that a point and shoot has a manual flash mode for the onboard flash or a way to disable TTL(for optical triggering) or a pc port (I could be wrong). So how would you trigger your strobes.

Strobes would give you more power and will stop motion for you but take more experience to use and setup as well as more technical geekness to make work and sync. If you are just starting out and don't have a DSLR or a P&S with a flash shoe the continuous lights will be much easier to use. What you see while setting up is what you will take a picture of.

I have a DSLR and a P&S super zoom similar to yours and have spent hours messing with TTL and sync issues to make my off camera strobe setup work. I have broke down and am ordering radio triggers this week. Unfortunately I don't think that this would be an option for your camera.