Lighting accessories for home

Greetings again everyone! I hope everyone had a fantastic week and weekend! I have a quick question regarding lighting for in-home use. I do both film and digital photography and I've always had issues with the lighting in my house, I'm not a big fan of the stock flash on the Canon Rebel T7. I wanted to know what sort of lighting equipment I could purchase that would help. We have a newborn and we always take pictures of his months as he ages. I would also like it for inside portraits as well. Do you have any recommendations on anything I can purchase that doesn't really hurt the bank.


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I just want some decent equipment that will help with the lighting issue. Like I said, I only take pictures of my child and my wife indoors. So I don't need expert grade equipment just something that will improve the environment.

 

Welcome to the forum, DrinkyT, also welcome to my world of being light on for funds. get yourself some cheap torches from where-ever. Next is light modifiers, a torch light is a single source light which produces a harsh light. To soften the light grab some curtain material that defuses light or something similar to produce a multi-point light source.
Next controlling where the light hits the subject, make your self some barn doors out of black cardboard and tape, to get the same effect as a expensive lighting.
With two lights setup this way, you have a cheap shell lighting system.
light stands will be anything you can tape the torches too.
Window light, often used with some diffusion curtain material to soften the light.
With window light to the rear to act as a hair light and your modified torch lighting system to the front and off to the side to highlight side of face to produce Rembrant lighting.
If you have a off the camera flash, similar light modifiers can be used on it and in combination with the a fore-mentioned lighting system.
Now for a bit more expensive stuff. Yoguno (hope I have not butchered the name, get them cheap off of Ebay from china) wireless connectors from camera to flash. You can buy them as a kit of 3 or more. this allows you to connect cheap second hand flash units to your camera, say two or more and have them setup off the camera, activated wirelessly from the camera.
Your biggest aid is You Tube to see how this is all done.
Any questions and we are here to help.

 

i have several flo lights in the house and i know they are rubbish for photography because they flicker pretty bad but i just went and tested the syvania led tube i put up in the back room which is same brightness as a 95 ish watt, i cant remember exactly but its flicker free
i tested it from 1/6 to 1/4000 with my M50 and efm 32mm so that might be a good option, they not that expensive and you can get them in various sizes and powers, very light weight so you could make a panel board

 

Greetings! Thanks for the

Greetings! Thanks for the informative response. Now I should have mentioned I am willing to spend decent money, I went on b&h and was seeing $1000 for certain models. I don’t mind paying a few hundred dollars. I’m newer to this part of Photography, so I really have no idea. I just want it to work well and be on the beginner friendly side. Like I said, I am far from a professional. I just want to get into it slowly and hopefully improve down the road. I would like a product I can just buy, works easy, does the job. Does this help a little better? I’ve never been a cheapskate when it comes to tech and photography, however, for something new to my skill set I would like something not as professional.

How many lights do you need? I have a small guest room or a decent sized living room I would use it in. I’m really lost here lol

 

Just film and digital photography.