Hi everyone! I am brand new to photography and am finally looking into kicking it up a notch from natural lighting & getting some artificial lights. As of now, I think I will be purchasing an Alien Bee strobe with a beauty dish, as well as a soft box, which I will either use with a speedlight or another Alien Bee strobe. I use an entry level DSLR (Canon t5i), with a 50mm lens. So, I am wondering, how exactly are strobes "fired" (particularly Alien Bee strobes). I understand they somehow have to sync to the camera, but do I also need to purchase some sort of trigger or transmitter? What exactly do I need to automatically fire my flashes? Thank you for the help, as always.
They sell their own transmitters and receivers that allow you to control parameters of the strobes straight from the transmitter:
https://www.paulcbuff.com/cybersync.php