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Hello friends, please bear with me as this might be a long one! 
I have a few photoshoots coming up in the future as a favour for my "mother in law". She is holding afew evenings where ladies come along and have makeovers and massages etc and at the end of their session she would like me to take a few portraits of each lady. Nothing fancy just a nice picture of how fabulous they looked
Now, in the past i have done a few short photoshoots with family etc just using 2 cheap flashguns and 2 umbrellas triggered remotely with a cheap-o trigger and remotes. These have been fine but i'm worried about battery usage/power over the space of an evening and to be honest i was looking at possibly some strobes or continuous lighting.
I have afew questions, what are the advantages of one against the other? Of course with continuous lighting i wouldn't need any kind of trigger etc and could therefore still use my cheap flashes/remotes as filler but is this necessarily the best way? I'd love to hear some opinions on the matter
My next dilemma is that i only have 1 camera body, if for any reason it plays up on the evening/s it means that i can't take pictures of the ladies after their makeovers. Of course they can't come back and have another makeover in order to get their picture taken another day so i need to have a working camera on the night.
I currently have a D7000, but unfortunately i won't be able to afford another as a backup. I've been researching alittle bit at older models, in particular the D40 variants, D70 variants and the D50 etc but i don't know which is the best to go for. All these can be had for sub £200.
My first question is: am i aiming too low as a backup to my current camera? In theory it is only going to be used as a backup for portraits in a well lit studio environment. No tricky lighting situations, high ISO etc. Or should i be aiming abit further up the ladder at a D200 perhaps or something of the like? I'm not massively clued up on the older models so i don't particularly know the advantages of a D200 over say, a D40.
In my head i wasn't looking at spending hundreds and hundreds of pounds on either the lighting or the backup camera but if the evenings take off it may become more of a permanent affair. Who knows if it takes off i might find myself doing other shoots etc. The more i think about it the more i feel that i should be spending the extra on decent gear, but at the same time without breaking the bank. I'd love some pointers here, i've been thinking about it so much i'm getting myself into a daze. I need a fresh mind to cast an eye over the situation
If you've made it this far then i applaud you, it felt like an essay to write so it probably seemed like one reading it too
I have a few photoshoots coming up in the future as a favour for my "mother in law". She is holding afew evenings where ladies come along and have makeovers and massages etc and at the end of their session she would like me to take a few portraits of each lady. Nothing fancy just a nice picture of how fabulous they looked
Now, in the past i have done a few short photoshoots with family etc just using 2 cheap flashguns and 2 umbrellas triggered remotely with a cheap-o trigger and remotes. These have been fine but i'm worried about battery usage/power over the space of an evening and to be honest i was looking at possibly some strobes or continuous lighting.
I have afew questions, what are the advantages of one against the other? Of course with continuous lighting i wouldn't need any kind of trigger etc and could therefore still use my cheap flashes/remotes as filler but is this necessarily the best way? I'd love to hear some opinions on the matter
My next dilemma is that i only have 1 camera body, if for any reason it plays up on the evening/s it means that i can't take pictures of the ladies after their makeovers. Of course they can't come back and have another makeover in order to get their picture taken another day so i need to have a working camera on the night.
I currently have a D7000, but unfortunately i won't be able to afford another as a backup. I've been researching alittle bit at older models, in particular the D40 variants, D70 variants and the D50 etc but i don't know which is the best to go for. All these can be had for sub £200.
My first question is: am i aiming too low as a backup to my current camera? In theory it is only going to be used as a backup for portraits in a well lit studio environment. No tricky lighting situations, high ISO etc. Or should i be aiming abit further up the ladder at a D200 perhaps or something of the like? I'm not massively clued up on the older models so i don't particularly know the advantages of a D200 over say, a D40.
In my head i wasn't looking at spending hundreds and hundreds of pounds on either the lighting or the backup camera but if the evenings take off it may become more of a permanent affair. Who knows if it takes off i might find myself doing other shoots etc. The more i think about it the more i feel that i should be spending the extra on decent gear, but at the same time without breaking the bank. I'd love some pointers here, i've been thinking about it so much i'm getting myself into a daze. I need a fresh mind to cast an eye over the situation
If you've made it this far then i applaud you, it felt like an essay to write so it probably seemed like one reading it too
