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Comment by Mao on June 16, 2010 at 12:25pm

I agree with Les, Use any lighting you already have. (I personally adore natural window lighting) You can soften any lamp by bouncing it on the wall, putting something on the lamp to soften the light, bounce any light with anything white or black, paper, clothes, furniture, shoe box... I would invest first on an external flash thingy personally...

Comment by Laurette Beliveau on June 16, 2010 at 11:53am

Didn't even think about that (new topic) Les at the time. Sorry for the 'bump'. lol Purely an oversight on my part.

Oh I won't be dropping a load of money. If I had a load of money I wouldn't be asking for an inexpensive recommendation. ha! lol

Thanks for your ideas. I'll definitely keep them in mind. I actually already have reflector on my shopping list. Natural light is also something I plan to use as I get great sun in a couple of locations in the house in the afternoon. I guess I was mainly just curious as to what I should stay away from (halogen and so forth). Probably should have phrased it that way eh?

Comment by Laurette Beliveau on June 16, 2010 at 7:01am

Just giving this a little nudge back up...

Comment by Laurette Beliveau on June 15, 2010 at 3:08pm

P.S. When I say small light I just mean one that isn't made for a Hollywood movie set. This is for my little home studio, nothing more. Thanks!

Comment by Laurette Beliveau on June 15, 2010 at 3:07pm

Can any of you recommend a good, inexpensive 'studio' light (continous tungsten or otherwise)? I'm getting more and more into/interested tabletop still life and plants and I think I want to get a smallish light to assist me. Thoughts/suggestions? Umbrella or no umbrella?

Comment by Laurette Beliveau on June 3, 2010 at 12:49pm

Thanks for the PM response Vjeko.

Comment by Laurette Beliveau on June 3, 2010 at 11:00am

Yeah that's what I was saying...how the heck could I not have enough RAM. lol
I'm going to PM you Vjeko.

Comment by VJEKO on June 3, 2010 at 8:57am

You have RAM more then you need it.Question is what graphic card you have.

Comment by Laurette Beliveau on June 3, 2010 at 7:19am

The strangest thing happened last night in PSE8. I was trying to recompose an image and 1/2 way through, the process stopped saying there was insufficent RAM. My new laptop has 4gigs of RAM and I don't have a lot running in the background (McAfee and a Seagate external HD, that's about it as far as I know, but I need to double check on that, obviously). I just thought it was very odd. Maybe I'll unplug the Seagate until I finish editing and then plug it back in, as it doesn't have to plugged in constantly. Any thoughts?

Comment by Laurette Beliveau on June 2, 2010 at 12:28pm

It does have a familiar ring to it, like that was the one he mentioned. Maybe that's what he meant by simpler. hahaha I will check it out though. I mean I'm still trying to learn how to use PSE8 and my camera, never mind adding in even more software. Good grief! lol

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