jlafferty wrote:
My personal experience with all sorts of lighting is ~15 years working in the commercial & editorial photo world in NYC. I’ve handled a bunch of parabolic mods, including Broncolor & Briese (and even the legendary B2Pro - #iykyk .
Commercial or not, and putting aside whatever shade you’re trying to create repeatedly using Chinese as a pejorative… the results speak for themselves. Anyone who knows what they’re looking at can see the quality of light shared in the video. If it’s not for you, I’m not offended… but if we’re chatting about “the parabolic look”, Selens seems to deliver.
On this whole idea that a parabolic “doesn’t have a look” - sure, you can make it emulate a very overpriced octa, or a very overpriced ringflash-ish… but if you’re looking to have it behave in a way that no other single modifier can, that’s “the parabolic look.”
You certainly have experience with parabolic reflectors. Remarkable how one photographer's’ opinion/ experiences and maybe taste can be that much different from another. “Chinese” in my post isn’t meant as a pejorative; I could and would say the same if I was watching a Dutch test for a Dutch product. My studiolights are Chinese (Godox); no problem with Chinese products in general.In my opinion, the Godox parabolic reflector performs very poor in this test from “GabrielPhoto”. What’s your impression of this? “GabrielPhoto” couldn’t get his hands on a Selens para (I think, they didn’t want to lend him one for testing). That’s too bad, because then maybe we really could see differences. So yes, I trust the results of his comparative test more than that Selens video. In my opinion a parabolic reflector doesn’t have ONE specific look….it can have multiple “looks” and then some more. If you know of another one modifier that can do that, then I really would like to know.
If you feel that I was too harsh in my language, then I’m sorry; no offence intended.
jlafferty wrote:
My personal experience with all sorts of lighting is ~15 years working in the commercial & editorial photo world in NYC. I’ve handled a bunch of parabolic mods, including Broncolor & Briese (and even the legendary B2Pro - #iykyk .
Commercial or not, and putting aside whatever shade you’re trying to create repeatedly using Chinese as a pejorative… the results speak for themselves. Anyone who knows what they’re looking at can see the quality of light shared in the video. If it’s not for you, I’m not offended… but if we’re chatting about “the parabolic look”, Selens seems to deliver.
On this whole idea that a parabolic “doesn’t have a look” - sure, you can make it emulate a very overpriced octa, or a very overpriced ringflash-ish… but if you’re looking to have it behave in a way that no other single modifier can, that’s “the parabolic look.”
You certainly have experience with parabolic reflectors. Remarkable how one photographer's’ opinion/ experiences and maybe taste can be that much different from another. “Chinese” in my post isn’t meant as a pejorative; I could and would say the same if I was watching a Dutch test for a Dutch product. My studiolights are Chinese (Godox); no problem with Chinese products in general.In my opinion, the Godox parabolic reflector performs very poor in this test from “GabrielPhoto”. What’s your impression of this? “GabrielPhoto” couldn’t get his hands on a Selens para (I think, they didn’t want to lend him one for testing). That’s too bad, because then maybe we really could see differences. So yes, I trust the results of his comparative test more than that Selens video. In my opinion a parabolic reflector doesn’t have ONE specific look….it can have multiple “looks” and then some more. If you know of another one modifier that can do that, then I really would like to know.
If you feel, that I was too harsh in my language, then I’m sorry; no offense intended.
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