The kit includes a photography background and all the necessary studio accessories, allowing for easy setup in home, office, school, or studio environments. The simple configuration will be suitable for beginner photographers.

The Academy™ kit has been prepared for users based on the requirements set out for a home photo studio. It includes all the essential elements needed to build a photographic studio at home - a background hanging system, basic background, and lighting. The white background ensures compliance with requirements specified by authorities (photos for documents) as well as online sales platforms (product photography). The lighting power enables photography ranging from close-ups (portraits, details) to half-close-ups (busts). For inanimate objects, the frame is limited only by the width of the background. The kit can also be used for filming (live, stream, remote learning). Higher sensitivities may be required.

The Academy™ photography studio kit allows you to take photos:

• for documents (IDs, passports, student IDs, biometric photos)
• portraits (for documents, makeup, artistic portraits)
• products (catalogs, websites, online stores, sales platforms)
• for the Allegro platform (auctions, buy now, thumbnails)

The lighting used in this kit is innovative studio continuous lighting - single-bulb LED lamps on lighting stands with photographic umbrellas serving as light modifiers. The lamps are equipped with DaVinci^™ photographic bulbs with standardized parameters (color temperature 3600-6200K and color rendering index CRI >90). Using continuous light in a home studio provides an excellent real-time view of the results, allows for smartphone use, and importantly - enables filming. The use of umbrellas softens the tonal transition between light and shadow.

A minimum of 2 lamps is used in Academy™ kits due to mutual shadow compensation - one lamp serves as the main light source, while the other acts as a fill light. The power of the bulbs used is specified in the technical specifications (below).

The strong point of this kit is the lighting with remote brightness and color temperature control. Here, innovative LED Bi-Color bulbs from the DaVinci™ series are used, controlled remotely via included remotes.

Variable color temperature is achieved in the bulb using a classic method known from on-camera lights - by mounting a chessboard of luminescent diodes with two different color temperatures. This solution has an additional advantage: shifts in the spectrum of individual diodes increase effective color rendering for the entire bulb. The range of color temperatures goes from 3600K to 6200K. The high luminous efficiency of the bulb means that we achieve a very high luminance with low active power consumption, equivalent to 170-watt bulbs.

The LED matrices are covered by a protective diffuser shield dispersing light over an area of 112cm², ensuring that emitted light has a pleasant, soft distribution regardless of intensity. At short distances, the softening of light can match a softbox or beauty-dish lamp. The bulb produces very nice, relatively large reflections.

The generated light is continuous without flickering, enabling filming with higher frame rates. The bulb is designed for indoor use, with an IP20 protection class. It is intended for professional applications in a photographic studio setting. This bulb is not suitable for household use. The bulb housing is not hermetically sealed.

A lightweight, single-layer umbrella with a diameter of 84 cm featuring white diffusive CineGEN SoftLight™ fabric made from low-light-absorbing polyamide produced in a special patented technological process. The CineGEN SoftLight™ diffuser does not change the color temperature of transmitted light.
Umbrellas are used by professionals and amateurs alike. The umbrella's action is based on changing the direction of incident light rays. The spherical shape of the diffuser acts like a lens, transforming the omnidirectional nature of light into a more dispersed one. In practice, this means that sharp shadows become softer, shapes appear more plastic, "three-dimensional," textures are emphasized but not harsh. With umbrellas, we can eliminate unwanted shadows and make tonal transitions much gentler. For portraits, skin looks better, wrinkles are reduced, and the iris is large and bright. In product photography, details in shadows are enhanced, areas of overexposure (glare) on shiny surfaces are reduced. This is also an ideal solution for people creating videos for their online channels.

A lightweight and stable stand designed for use with small and medium lamps as well as lighting kits in studio and outdoor environments. It works perfectly with flash and continuous light lamps, softboxes, RedHead halogen lamps, whose easy assembly is facilitated by the 16mm studio head with a universal 1/4" thread. When folded, the stand takes up little space, and its setup is extremely simple - it has comfortable, profiled section clamps. The maximum height of the stand when unfolded is 200cm, while the working height is 190cm.

A professional lighting fixture allows for precise positioning of the light source on the photographed object. The fixture is made from lightweight and durable material. It is designed for continuous light bulbs and compact flash lamps with an E27 thread, as well as lighting stands with a 16mm end. Thanks to its wide range of head adjustments in the +80°/-80° range, it allows you to easily and conveniently change the light setup. At the back of the fixture is a two-wire cable 1.3m long.

The light sources used in the Academy™ kit allow for smooth color temperature regulation, providing extensive possibilities to adapt to existing lighting conditions, create a mood consistent with the presented theme, and conduct creative experiments using lights of different color temperatures.

There are various reasons why we use color temperature control. One of the most commonly cited reasons is the use of ambient light - this could be daylight entering through a window or artificial light from lamps on the room's ceiling. If we use bulbs with different color temperatures, it will be visible in the resulting frame and importantly - prevent us from achieving natural (neutral) white, gray, and skin tones. To counteract this, we adjust the temperature of the lamps to match that of the ambient lighting or sunlight (warm on sunny days, cool on cloudy ones). In such cases, existing light improves exposure without affecting our "white balance" - the equilibrium of color temperatures in the frame.

Another reason why we might want to change the color temperature is to emphasize skin tone. People involved in makeup know that it can look different indoors and outdoors. By adjusting the color temperature of the lighting, we can check the makeup in various situations. When taking photos or recording videos, we can enhance the effect we're aiming for - warming up the skin tone or cooling it down for people with a darker complexion and yellow tones in their hair.

The background hanging kit consists of two CGLS-816B studio stands and a folding dual-section beam attached to them. The frame allows for the suspension of various photographic backgrounds (cardboard, vinyl, or fabric) up to 5 kg in weight and with a maximum width of 165 cm. Backgrounds can be hung at heights ranging from 83 cm to 205 cm.
The beam is attached to the stands using butterfly nuts, which prevents it from lifting when raising the background upwards. The unrolling of the background from the roll is blocked by inserting two grips (frogs) included in the kit.

A lightweight and economical photographic background made from polypropylene fabric ensures high durability and resistance to studio conditions - spills, creases, tears. The cardboard roll protects against creases during transport or storage. Potential creases can be easily removed by steaming the background or weighing it down when wet.

The width and length of the fabric on the roll are sufficient for creating an entire background without creases (cyclorama) to photograph a figure. The perforated texture of the background minimizes reflections from strong light sources.

Note regarding material texture - people who encounter photographic polypropylene backgrounds for the first time may be concerned that the background's texture will show up in photos. In real-life conditions, the object remains about 50 cm away from the background, which combined with a shallow depth of field causes the background texture to become blurred.

We sell backgrounds with tubes - this greatly facilitates work, transport, and storage.

Material Texture

Note regarding material texture - people who encounter photographic polypropylene backgrounds for the first time may be concerned that the background's texture will show up in photos. In real-life conditions, the object remains about 50 cm away from the background, which combined with a shallow depth of field causes the background texture to become blurred.