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Anonymous
Tell me /p/

How do you take a 'Good' Photograph, pref portrait

Im a little new to this game, and i want to take the best digital photos I can, without breaking the bank e.g. 100 quid max for camera (low paying job sucks)

Thanks /p/
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>> Anonymous
>>85801
Don't they come with stands?
>> Anonymous
>>85802
Do they? I don't mean anything photography-intended... I mean those big lightbulbs (usually) with metal reflectors behind them meant for construction work and things like that. I've only seen them clamped on to other, usually random things.
>> Anonymous
>>85801
100% improvisation, that's how.

>>85797
Isn't that a film SLR?
>> Anonymous
>>85804
Yeah, you mean those big halogens with cages over the bulbs, right? Don't they usually have some hook thing on them? You can use that either to prop it up on a level surface or hang it from something. Just improvise.
>> OPFOR !8vKpfCqy8A
Check out the strobist website. For the last couple of post, they have been talking about lights you can get at home depot

http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/
>> Anonymous
>>85805
>>85807

Those are the things. I've seen them with and without cages, though, and usually with a big shiny metal thing behind them.

I was wondering if anyone had any useful tips for things to use, some equally common item that made a good cheap lightstand substitute.

>>85808
How is it that /p/ and high-level photography blogs seem to move in sync? First that guy posted a question asking how to get "in" with people to photograph them and David Alan Harvey posted a blog post about exactly that, and now the Strobist is talking about my question.
>> Anonymous
>>85814
Yeah, I've used those things for films before when my normal lights burned out or something. Just find something to stick them on. Improvise. It'll probably be easier with photographs than films anyway...yeah, 'cause then you could probably even just have some guy hold it.