Peter Cripps Photography

So after much deliberation and faffing around with various different flash guns (AKA strobes if you’re reading this in the US), triggers and stands here it is – my complete portable lighting kit. It consists of:

• RF60 Cactus Wireless Flash x 2
• V6 Cactus Wireless Flash Transceiver
• Manfrotto Nano Black Stand x 2
• Lastolite 53cm Translucent Umbrella + Lastolite Tilthead
• Calumet  Satin White Compact Umbrella + Calumet Umbrella Adapter with Hot Shoe
• Lastolite 50cm Silver/White Reflector
• Honl Photo Speed Gobo/Reflector

This is the basic kit I now carry to shoots for use both indoors and outdoors. I sometimes also supplement this kit with the following:

• Lastolite Ezybox plus additional Lastolite Tilthead (no longer made but here is the current model)
• 5 in 1 1m Reflector (unknown origin)
• Additional V6 Cactus Wireless Flash Transceiver for use with:
• Canon 430 Ex II Speedlight

The Cactus transceiver attaches to the Canon Speedlight allowing for a third light source when needed. I usually place this light on its provided light stand in a convenient place when I want to get a bit more light into a corner. I don’t generally use a stand for this.

Here’s the lighting as set up in a recent studio shoot with a client. The background is not mine but provided by the studio and is from the Lastolite Urban Background range.

And here are some of the resulting images.