Photographers, I'm looking for a rock solid LED light setup to shoot studio shots for book cover concepts and photo illustrations for editorial (newspaper & magazine) assignments.

I just shot the two pics below for a book cover on gentrification with a Galician friend who's a photographer. Knowing me, he said flash is over my head (too technical, too much fluffing around) when I can go LED and you shoot what you see i.e. WYSIWYG. Sounds simple to me but my only hesitation is this is an influencer setup. Literally when you google LED lights the copy reads great for vloggers!

For example, if I'm going to buy a tripod I buy a Manfrotto. I'm a graphic designer first and photographer second. I can't be troubled with learning a complicated light setup with myriad technical variables. My preference is natural light but I need to be able to setup a decent indoors lighting scenario on a table and bang something out myself but I don't know what "gear" I should buy. I'd rather buy the right setup the first time and be done for the next couple decades. I want the Manfrotto or Canon 5D Mark IV of LED lights if this exists.

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