Hello, newbie here. just set up a studio by clearing and converting my garage. Its 5.5 m x 6.0 m and I bought an elinchroms Bxri 500 kit with softboxes for main/fill plus I have SB800's for backlights, hairlights etc. Just been taking a few shots of the family but couldn't get f stop lower than f8, even on lowest power setting and with lights positioned about 4 m away from subject. (ISO 200, 1/125 sec). Are the lights too powerful for studio or am I missing something? I suppose I could move them back a bit further but everything I've read so far says to get the softest light position as close as poss to subject! There's no way I can open up the apeture to blur the background with the strobes any closer, any advice most welcome please!
