What Color Are Your Bees?

I plan on getting Some Alien bees (800's) and have been wondering what color your bees are. I know my prefered color is black, but if someone can change my mind( with a good reason why) I should get a different color I may change.
Mike

The only good reason to get a different color would be because you like it better.
Just stick with black.

claybuster wrote in post #4842014
I plan on getting Some Alien bees (800's) and have been wondering what color your bees are. I know my prefered color is black, but if someone can change my mind( with a good reason why) I should get a different color I may change.
Mike

Get the hot pink color. It'll make you a much better photographer. Or that's what I've been told.

PacAce wrote in post #4842104
Get the hot pink color. It'll make you a much better photographer. Or that's what I've been told.

If I do, I'm getting out the spray paint and painting the light stands and camera to match
Mike
I wonder if they make pocket wizards in hot pink.

Hey guys,really,I'm serious about this! Do you think by getting the Bees in a bright color would make the studio mood a little more cheery ,happy, not so afraid of being in front of the camera thing.I think the hot pink color is out,unless I can find a shirt to match.

Get the hot pink. The girls like a man who's in touch with his femanine side. LOL

If I were getting the Bees for professional studio use, I'd definitely get the black ones. But since I don't run a pro studio, I got a white one (AB800) and a yellow one (AB400), just so I could tell them apart. Of course, I can also tell them apart by just looking at the markings on the housing but I didn't know that when I ordered them.

I have one green and one yellow as above just to make it easy to tell them apart.

This movie has played here at least once before.

Check out this long thread:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=305612

Enjoy! Lon

If I switch to strobes, they will be black so they don't get noticed as much for sports photography. Out of sight, out of mind.
Mike

well colors help assistants... you can say more the green strobe over just a tad and the white one more left. Thats much easer then more the strobe that cameras right to the left and the camera also cameras right more right....which is cameras right. Looking at the subject or looking into the lens end....

FlashZebra wrote in post #4843581
This movie has played here at least once before.

Check out this long thread:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=305612

Enjoy! Lon

I hear this one has a surprise ending and some never-seen-before sequences.

I agree with the prior posters - all of my 400's are black, my 800's are white, and if I go higher, they'll be some other color, so I can tell them apart easily.

M

After reading the comments from previous posts, I can see where color can play a logical role in the placement of the lights. I was just thinking about them not being obvious in a public setting where they would be mounted on black light stands or clamped to a railing somewhere.

Thanks for the enlightenment.
Mike

I Have Black (AB800 and 1600 ) and Yellow (AB400 ), If it did not cost so much just to change color I would switch the AB1600 to white. Primary reason is to tell them apart.

Black is a very conservative color, but I know people with Pink lights who shoot schools, Green lights to tell them apart.
I chose Yellow for the AB400's because they match my current vehicle and because white was not yet out. But yellow is not a distracting color,

If white had been available when I got mine, I probably would have gotten all white, so I could then custom paint my lights with my colors. Probably just as well.