ultra 1800 shot through 47" octobox.

Great shots Jason. You from Chicago?

eventhestreets wrote:

No, I'm not, but I have done a few shoots up there for people. Including that photo there of Jessica Sonner. I actually live in Bloomington, IN. So not too far of a drive from there.

As far as Jay's question. The lighting setup on all these was just a single AB800 with softbox, placed generally at 45 degree angle from subject and either to camera right or left. If you look at the catchlights in some, it's fairly easy to see which way the lightsource comes from.

Cheers,
-Jason

http://www.jasongaskins.com

Great new pics, Jason! The wallpaper background works well... must steal that idea.

Great shots Jason!

What size softbox are you using?

Jason,

Beautiful work! Also, very genuine and warm somehow. Must be YOU!

My compliments!

I'll contribute a bit. I loved the old 1-light thread, too bad it's gone. Let's build it back up again because it was such a great resource for me! I can't compare with the likes of Jason or Simon, but here's some recent stuff.












Finally, all were shot with the Elinca Deep Octa, or just the standard reflector. I've used a 600RX like in the pic below, and also an AcuteB setup too. A tad heavy, but beautiful light.

whats the difference between the deep Octa and the shallow? do both bounce the light off the BACK of the box?

Great images, Spencer, especially the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th! So you've got your Deep Octa adapted for both Elinchrom and Profoto heads? Is it a removeable speedring or something more permanent?

Both the regular Octa and Deep do not bounce into the back. Only the "indirect" banks do that.

The deep, is well, just like it's described. It's much deeper. It provides light like a softbox and beauty dish. I always leave the front diffuser off.

Simon, Elinchrom makes an adapter to attach their mods onto Profoto heads.

I have noticed that I take a lot of one light portraits. I have 2 studio strobes, 2 SB-28s and a little quantaray flash booster, but I'm always using just one light. I don't know why but I like the look.
I used a SB-28 into a silver umbrella at camera right 1/4th power. I like the way the silver umbrella looks in the catclight.

Here's another one. Same setup different light modifier. I used a softlighter and a 200ws studio strobe.

This is the same setup as above with the silver umbrella. The light comes from camera left on this one tho'.

Here's my third shot with my new WL1600 and softlighter. I was trying to use Chucks white towel method with a giant white bear instead of a towel when my daughter decided to run in frame and "help"

60" softlighter about 45 degrees on camera right

Carmen Miranda wrote:
rads wrote:
One big window to camera right


Best one-light set up ever invented!

Very nice pic, Rad.

Thanks
Thanks Carmen, window works great unless its overcast. Ed Pierce was saying he likes the westcott spiderlights with the daylight fluorescents because it simulates a window light without all the variables of the time of day and weather. Have you heard anything about those?

Edited by rads on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:53 AM GMT

Thanks Carmen, window works great unless its overcast. Ed Pierce was saying he likes the westcott spiderlights with the daylight fluorescents because it simulates a window light without all the variables of the time of day and weather. Have you heard anything about those?

Rad,

Yes, I've tried one, TD5 I think. They are well built too. I ended up with a cheaper version since I don't use daylight flourescents much, mainly for video. They are still a bit limited in output and control for still, but they are definately getting better and cheaper. I've got some indirect softboxes (flash) I prefer, which are larger and have a nicer light quality. The advantage to the constant cool light though is that like a true window you can see real time where and how the light is falling.

I can see why EP likes using them, because of his flair for demonstration. He puts on a great show and could do wonders with a flashlight.

Good luck.

Hey Spencer or Simon, is there a speedring or adapter to use a Deep Throat on a WL mount? I've looked for this before and asked a few store reps but didn't find anything.

pchaplo wrote:
whats the difference between the deep Octa and the shallow? do both bounce the light off the BACK of the box?

the deep throat is more contrasty than the small octo...it is also more parabolic....the light without the front diffuser reminds me of the output from the mola setti..but the deep throat is easier to transport and about half the price.....

bacilonur wrote:
Hey Spencer or Simon, is there a speedring or adapter to use a Deep Throat on a WL mount? I've looked for this before and asked a few store reps but didn't find anything.

No, not that I know of. It would be quite the adapter too.

bka2d, I find it very similar to a beauty-dish. Very contrasty and a very nice quality of light.

Gomez, FM doesn't allow inline HTML. Just paste the URLs in and FM parses them automatically.