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For those of you who are just starting to experiment with studio strobe lighting, here’s a great tutorial on the many kinds of setups you might try. While our good friends at Pro Photography 1010 point out there is no one right or wrong answer to how to light, it helps to understand why you might use one versus another. This helpful article<\/span> will get you started the right way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who are just starting to experiment with studio strobe lighting, here’s a great tutorial on the many kinds of setups you might try. While our good friends at Pro Photography 1010 point out there is no one right or wrong answer to how to light, it helps to understand why you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,606],"tags":[48,215,216],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news-blog","category-photography-2","tag-lighting","tag-strobes","tag-studio"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":"","rpg_gallery_thumb":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","gb-block-post-grid-landscape":"","gb-block-post-grid-square":"","et-pb-post-main-image":"","et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":"","et-pb-portfolio-image":"","et-pb-portfolio-module-image":"","et-pb-portfolio-image-single":"","et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":"","et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":"","et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":"","et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":"","et-pb-image--responsive--phone":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

For those of you who are just starting to experiment with studio strobe lighting, here’s a great tutorial on the many kinds of setups you might try. While our good friends at Pro Photography 1010 point out there is no one right or wrong answer to how to light, it helps to understand why you might use one versus another. 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