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Herb wrote:
I am just a babe in the woods when it comes to lighting....so I need some help understanding your thoughts on the set up....
The gridded soft boxes those were to put light on the back ground but not a lot, is that correct?
The softbox that you used camera right, was that because you only had one large parabolic umbrella or ?
Thanks in advance!
Herb, I appreciate the questions. All the equipment I have is to create whatever lighting environment I need, so it's not based on having just this or that. I have two parabolic umbrellas, an assortment of softboxes, more umbrellas, grids, etc. Four Einsteins and an AB B800. Six speed lights, but those are rarely used when I'm using my strobes. I like to think I can light up the Grand Canyon if I need to. 
The silver extreme parabolic PLM umbrella intensifies the light, allowing for a shorter duration of the strobe light. Often, I can get it down to 1/5,000 or shorter in the strobe's action mode. The 64-inch umbrella allows me to cover a pretty wide area, but there's a pretty fast falloff of light as well. I use the softbox to the right for a softer fill light. In the back, the lights are gridded, but no softbox is used. It's not necessary as those lights are used for hairlights and rimlights.
Because I'm dealing with dancers (or in this case, cheerleaders) moving, What I do is create a lighting zone with pretty safe 1:1 even lighting. I set the softbox one stop off the main light, but you don't really see it in the image. The lighting looks very even, and it's intentional that way. When you're running multiple dancers through a bunch of shots, that's just the way I find that works best.
When we do a re-shoot next month, we will take our time and set up lights for each individual move they make, slowing down the process but creating more artistic shots. I really can't wait to do it.
I hope this helps.
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