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Lighting equipment

Written by: Nate Torres

Last updated: July 30, 2024

Learn about lighting equipment in photography and how they can be achieve to better control and manipulate your light source...


What are lighting equipment in photography?

Using lighting equipment in photography is vital to controlling and manipulating the light in your images. There are various tools you can use to direct, soften, or block light such as softboxes, umbrellas, reflectors, gobos, scrims, speedlights and much more.

Studio portrait using a softbox.
Using softbox in the studio

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