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p.1 #1 · ab ubr white shovel bg reflector

Any one have experience with using these? Better than barndoors?

Jeff

Jan 10, 2010 at 07:29 PM

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p.1 #2 · ab ubr white shovel bg reflector

see http://www.alienbees.com/ubr.html

Jan 10, 2010 at 08:21 PM

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p.1 #3 · ab ubr white shovel bg reflector

I have one that I use from time to time.
It does the intended job.

Jan 11, 2010 at 03:30 AM

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p.1 #4 · ab ubr white shovel bg reflector

dmward wrote:
I have one that I use from time to time.
It does the intended job.

do you have any images you can post or email to see the results ?

Jan 11, 2010 at 05:30 PM

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p.1 #5 · ab ubr white shovel bg reflector

I have one but I find a standard reflector with a gridpot is much more versatile. You can feather the hotspot and change the hotspot size with grids. Not much adjustability or control with the shovel.

Jan 11, 2010 at 08:11 PM

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p.1 #6 · ab ubr white shovel bg reflector

Also, adding gels is difficult with the shovel.

It does do work well to just dump raw light that is slightly contained in a large area, not so much on seamless, though.

Jan 11, 2010 at 08:14 PM

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p.1 #7 · ab ubr white shovel bg reflector

> not so much on seamless <

Why? What do you mean?

Thanks for the help,

Jeff

Jan 11, 2010 at 09:48 PM

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p.1 #8 · ab ubr white shovel bg reflector

jwboring wrote:
> not so much on seamless <

Why? What do you mean?

Thanks for the help,

Jeff

The mostly-uncontrollable spill, inability to gel effectively, and most importantly the minor rippling that appears in seamless when the shovel is placed near the paper (the harsh angle that the light skims across the seamless creates subtle shadows/waves in seamless)

The reflector w/grid hits the paper head-on (mostly) thus lessening the appearance of ripples.

On the plus side of the shovel, the shovel will allow you to light up a background in much tighter quarters, requiring only 2 feet from light to background to create a background glow (see above for potential caveats, though)

Jan 11, 2010 at 10:44 PM


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