As I mentioned earlier this week, I was looking into getting a home-studio strobe-based lighting setup.

After a lot of great feedback at the digital photography school forum, I tweaked my original plan:

The main differences are:

• One B800 and one B400 (opposed to two B800s)
• Two heavy duty stands instead of the lightweight
• One 51″ White PLM and a 51″ Soft Silver PLM (instead of the larger soft silver)

My main thought on switching to the B400 + B800 setup is that if I ever want to expand, it’d be easy to throw in another B800 or B1600. It also saved me some money to buy the additional umbrella.

I’ll post again once I get them and have had a chance to experiment.