Saturday Tease

Nikolai

Suprisingly, this one was pretty safe :-)

A few setup shots so you guys and gals can get a glimpse of the lighting setups, etc.

#1: My classic 5-light seltup for full height shots: 2 rims, 1 hair, 1 main and one key (the main and the key are not shown due to them being behind the camera)



#2: Paul C Buff 86" PLM mouned on AB800 and triggered with PW as a "single light source":



#3: Same PLM in a silhouette setup (I cranked the power down for the real thing):



Enjoy! Finals will follow! (some may go to GF still)

This post was made with the assistance of Star*Explorer

Svennie

Great stuff! Always nice to see how images are created! I've got a long way to go

D'Buggs

Geeze.... Hey Nik, how high are them ceilings???

Nikolai

D'Buggs wrote:

Geeze.... Hey Nik, how high are them ceilings???

22ft in the highest part; 10-12ft in the lowest.

Candid Arts

Nik, So explain to me if you don't mind, the benefit or reasoning of using the grid softbox versus a regular softbox?

Nikolai

Candid Arts wrote:

Nik, So explain to me if you don't mind, the benefit or reasoning of using the grid softbox versus a regular softbox?

Regular softbox (diffused one at least) provides a very poor light spill control. Not as bad as a shoot-through umbrella (brollybox), but still bad enough.
Grids (crates), while not perfect, limit the spill considerably, thus making it much closer to an often desired "window effect". In the real windows the glass panes do not EMIT the light, they simply let it through. Softboxes withough grids are simply light emitting rectangles, which are totally not window-like light sources.

Another reason - much less flare when they turned to camera at least somewhat (not directly, obviously).

HTH

Candid Arts

Awesome. That does help. Thank you.

D'Buggs

Nikolai wrote:

22ft in the highest part; 10-12ft in the lowest.

Yeah, I'm envious. I can get a small box up for seated stuff (10' ceilings) but more often than not, I settle for a snooted light coming down from the back of set. It's just easier than re-riggin'.

Limitations, they suck.