Show us your setup and the final result!

Heya,

Practicing with wide aperture, ND filters and speedlite.

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Setup

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MalVeauX wrote in post #17461868
Heya,

Practicing with wide aperture, ND filters and speedlite.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/raEM​mZ IMG_2536 by Mwise1023, on Flickr

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Not quite there yet. I felt like the light was still too harsh and probably not enough. Maybe it should have been closer I think.

Very best,

Lovely shots Regarding harsh light: That's what you get with small light sources. I have the exact same modifier. Did you put the double diffusion + grid?

Samifoto wrote in post #17462525
Lovely shots Regarding harsh light: That's what you get with small light sources. I have the exact same modifier. Did you put the double diffusion + grid?

Heya,

Just the inner diffusion layer that evens out the light before it hits the outer modifier. I don't have a grid for it.
I think my main issue is that I was too far away perhaps, she kept moving and we had to keep moving the modifier so it wasn't optimally placed each time.
I definitely want a larger one, I'm thinking about a 36" octa one.

Very best,

Lighting: Two B800 strobes w/ 7" reflectors on background to blow it out, B800 with 2x3' softbox on model's right for fill, B1600 and 22" white beauty dish above and barely off-center for loop lighting, white collapsible reflector below for fill underneath chin. Oh, and white v-flat on model's left for more fill on that side.

Camera: 5DmarkIII and 135L

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tdlavigne wrote in post #17464890
Lighting: Two B800 strobes w/ 7" reflectors on background to blow it out, B800 with 2x3' softbox on model's right for fill, B1600 and 22" white beauty dish above and barely off-center for loop lighting, white collapsible reflector below for fill underneath chin. Oh, and white v-flat on model's left for more fill on that side.

Camera: 5DmarkIII and 135L

Looks really good.

JohnPh wrote in post #17462066
Setup

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Result

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Nice shot but feels to me like something is lacking from the foreground. I would like to see the rock outcropping more prominently ie closer.

Setup:

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Very sharp idea

Wow quite the set up. Thanks for posting

Thanks

crbinson wrote in post #17465211
Nice shot but feels to me like something is lacking from the foreground. I would like to see the rock outcropping more prominently ie closer.

Thanks for your input! Composition was pretty tricky right at the top of a good drop wedged inbetween two rocky outcrops, there is a better composition to be had from around that spot, I've just got to find it!

How are you finding the Bessel strips? I have some but I'm not keen on them. The grids that come with them seem pretty mediocre and the diffusion material on mine at least put out a very cool tone which looks almost magenta by the time I've corrected the WB for the Rotalux.

Got rid of them and got rotalux strips (with the super expensive but very effective lighttools grids) instead. I also found the grid to be mediocre and more importantly I really need my modifiers to be foldable.