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Fact #1. Light has always been a challenge for photographers, dating back to the exposure of the first photographs in the early 1800s. For a long while, photographers merely worked with incredibly long exposure times. Their subjects had to remain as still as possible for up to ten minutes. This allowed their plates to collect the low levels of light that slowly bounced off their subjects in waves.
Fact #2. Good lighting comes down to your control over three elements: direction, softness, and contrast. With a flash mounted on your camera, you have next to no control over direction. Its size also severely limits its softness. It also can't create very much contrast, given that it's a single light.
Fact #3. Photo lighting sets give you multiple light sources that you can place anywhere around your subject. This will provide you with compelling light directions as well as control over contrast. All you have to do is offset the power of one source against another coming from a different direction, and you've got contrast.
Fact #4. Most sets come with what are called banks or soft boxes. These are diffusion and reflection tools that increase the size of your light source. Think about a photograph you might take of a statue on a sunny day. Depending on the position of the sun, you get a certain amount of contrast, but the light is hot and harsh. This creates shadows. If you take that same picture on a cloudy day, all those shadows disappear. That's because the clouds create a natural soft box for the sun.
Fact #5. Knowing the kind of photography you want to do is the simplest way to narrow down your options. Even though most photography lighting sets are designed with still photography in mind, there are some serious sets for videographers, as well.
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