Perfect set up for floristry photography?

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I am in the process of setting up a home studio for the purpose of taking photographs of my partners floristry work. The pieces will range from hand held bouquets to 6ft coffin arrangements.

I have been researching what is required but as expected the information is so widely available and conflicting. I have been left completely baffled as to what is necessary and what are optional extras.
I have a budget of £300-£600.

I am an amateur photographer so forgive me if some of these questions appear simple;

What are people's suggestions for the perfect set up?

Continuous or flash lights, how many and what brands?
What power W lights?
Is a flash gun needed?
Soft boxes or umbrellas?

So far all I DO know is I need to purchase a sturdy tripod, a vinyl backdrop with stand and a reflector..

Can anyone advise??
 
a soft box style will give you directional light, while umbrellas have alot of spill and bounce light everywhere

flash or continous wont matter much if stuff dont move and you tripoding it, but.... you will need to try and match the colour temp, cri? if possible of your light sources

i think the ability todo narrow beams of light and flag them is important

yn 560 flashes with there controller unit may well be your best decent budget bet.
 
pingu666 said:
a soft box style will give you directional light, while umbrellas have alot of spill and bounce light everywhere
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Only a white shoot-through brolly will. A thick, black backed brolly won't. It will behave very similarly to a soft box.
 
Welcome to the forum..

There is no perfect set-up, for a variety of different styles and sizes of floristry you'll inevitably end up collecting a variety of different types and sizes of modifier.

Before buying anything - set-up a Pinterest board with your partner, and between you start gathering examples of the type of photograph you want to make. If you don't have a style of photography in mind *every purchase you make will be wrong*
 
If all the photography will be in good light you won't need wide aperture lenses. If all your output is going to be either images on the web or prints of A4 size or less you won't need a camera with a big sensor. If, as the above suggests, you're going to be using a lightweight camera with a small lens indoors then I don't think you need a sturdy tripod. Since your subjects are entirely still you could avoid all the expense and technical problems of flash and use continuous lights, which are much easier to use as well as cheaper.
 
you can have issues with colour reproduction and colour temp changing across the spread of a constant light, think cheap halogens can do that. While the yn560 flashes produce good quality light. I don't know enough about constants to recommend anything
 
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