Sunday, July 23, 2017

A great place to get photography accessories!

My wife and I discovered the shopping website Wish about a year ago and since then I have "purchased" many photography accessories from the site. I put purchased in quotations because due to Wish's own rules, if a product isn't delivered by a specified delivery date they will return your money and you still get to keep the item if it comes in afterwards. Some of the accessories I have received I have paid for, some I have gotten after I was refunded.

The accessories I have ordered and received have ranged from lens hoods, to flash reflectors to backdrops to remote flash triggers to a softbox. So far all have been really good quality. I will give a review of some of my favourite purchases.

One of the first things I ordered was a Christmas themed backdrop. I wanted in time for the annual charity Santa pictures my wife and I do at the Walmart where she works. We do it to raise money for the local food bank over a two day weekend. The backdrop came in too late for last year's shoots but I will be using it for this years shoot. The colours are a little muted then they looked like in the pictures but overall I am pleased. It is 5' x 7' in size. I have also received a black backdrop that was kinda of canvas/plastic material and a grey patterned paper backdrop that are really nice as well.





Another of my favourite item kinda go hand and hand. They are a flash bracket and a set of three flash remote trigger set. So far they all are working great and will be a big addition to my photo shoots. The trigger set has three different channels I hope will work with my strobe set as well, they work great with my flash gun.



I also ordered a softbox which I was surprised by the size and quality of it. I was very pleased it when I received it. I will be definitely ordering another one soon. It works great with my strobes. 



These have been the bigger items I have ordered I have also ordered some smaller accessories that so far I am very please with. These include some flash reflectors (one of which is a snoot), a shutter remote, a couple of lens hoods, a bracket to hold a reflector, some lens bags and more. 




I plan to do some more in depth reviews of some of the larger items such as the soft box and the flash triggers with some test shots taken while using those items in future blog entries. But for now I highly recommend anyone who is looking for studio and photography accessories at prices that won't bankrupt you to check out Wish. I know I will be ordering more, in fact I am waiting for the delivery of a small flash unit that I plan on using with my Fujfilm X30 and a "Grey Card" set. I may do future reviews of those when they come in.