I managed to flatten the battery, which is the 1st time I have ever done that on a shoot. I have never needed the Ranger or my old Bowens backup batteries. I did shoot quite a bit at close to full power, so it is not a surprise.
el_hoppy,
Have to ask which way this is set up.. I've been told that adding the extra cable will lose a stop of power. Is this true?
It looks like the A power is on the umbrella, with the bare head on the B Power.
Curious for a number of reasons... One being a way to balance the power for the lights as rear lights..
I went for the 2 head kit with spare battery and 2 EL-Adaptors.
The A power head is on the longer cable because for at least one set-up the key light was closer to the waters edge and when a boat passes by the waves wash up the beach. Both lights and the pack were in the wash zone in that shot.
Besides looking after the lights I also had to tend to my boat when boats passed by
Hey Hoppy, how about grabbing some superclamps and rigging up a few remote cameras in your boat all using the same flash with the Quadra and then see how it works at, say, 50MPH? You'd probably be the first. :-)
There was that guy from France a few months ago who wanted to do something with a Ranger and a jet ski, I guess he didn't make it.
Not so happy with the shadow caused by the shoulder. I think the 2nd light was too low and powerful. I think both lights metered about the same thanks to the umbrella. I'm still very much "all thumbs" when shooting outside of my studio,
bacilonur wrote:
Hey Hoppy, how about grabbing some superclamps and rigging up a few remote cameras in your boat all using the same flash with the Quadra and then see how it works at, say, 50MPH? You'd probably be the first. :-)
There was that guy from France a few months ago who wanted to do something with a Ranger and a jet ski, I guess he didn't make it.
I had been planning to shoot a model at speed sitting on the back.... One day soon perhaps
Was your second light supposed to be a rim light, like it is in your test shot, or were you intentionally going for cross lighting? That's what caused that shadow to stick out so much. If it had been behind her instead of to the side, the whole right side of her face would have been dark. Depends on the look you were going for, but you may want to try having the umbrella slightly closer to your camera axis and higher to reduce shadows like that and put the kicker behind her a bit more.
Try this the next time:
Put the extension on the back light and keep the bar nearer the umbrella. Based on what I've been told, that will give you more power to the umbrella and less on the bare head.
In a doh! moment just now, I realised that I have 2 cables. I can just try it with one head and see if the power reduces when I introduce the 2nd cable.
I priced up a second pack minus a battery but it's about €700, so not a good buy for me just yet!
I'd love if they made a quadra ringflash (I am aware it'll work with the RX ringflash and adaptor cable for $$$$)
Edit: Adding the cable does drop the power, but not by much.. about 1/2 stop or so.
You really have to plan your shoots wisely with the Quadra...
That advice really applies to all shoots regardless of your lighting gear.
I can see that 1/2 stop can be a problem with the key light, but is it really such a problem with the rim/fill light. Just don't do like me and use the double cable on the key
