Getting mobile with heavy studio lighting gear is no easy task. Studio strobes, heavy duty light stands, along with cords and other related equipment can be an unwieldy amount of gear to take on location.

However, going the “strobist” route, all of your lighting gear can fit into a single bag. You are mobile with your lighting.

The Strobist setup is the way to go. Here is what you’ll need for a one light setup:

• Hot shoe flash
• Lightweight light stand
• Umbrella swivel
• White umbrella
• Miniphone to miniphone cord
• Hot shoe universal translator
• 2- Pocket Wizard II transceivers (optional if you go “wired” and use a long miniphone to miniphone cord - your flash will have to have a female jack on it)

Here is a two light setup:

Here is the sort of photo you can get from this setup:

In addition to the strobist setup, you can obviously use the hot shoe flash with an off camera bracket for other lighting situations. The two light setup only take minutes to setup and minutes to take down. It all fits in a baseball bat, or large tripod  bag.  For more details on strobist lighting, check out the Strobist Blog.

You can purchase the whole kit and caboodle at Midwest Photo Exchange  if you are starting from scratch.

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