portable lighting solutions?

Hey there everyone. I have been shooting location work using all speedlights for a while. This has worked great and the lights are reliable. The major problem I have is when I shoot outdoors. My SB-28s can not overpower the sun, especially if you fire through a softbox.

What I want is a light to use as my main light that is portable for location work and powerful enough to overpower the sun. What strength light do I need for that? 800ws or 1600ws? I don't know. Please help with that and what brands are good for small portable, but powerful lights and power packs. I can still use my sb-28s for rim lighting and kicker lights, but I need at least one light that can relaibly be my main light.

Any help is much appreciated.

Brian

Brian,

Take a look at post #80 in this thread:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=678961

Shows a pretty interesting set up that PMND put together.

Mike

Take a look at the Lumedyne products.
http://www.lumedyne.co​m/

there are threads on Vagabond vs Tronix Explorer XT, then it's a matter of which head to use. The budget comes in there someplace.

thanks guys

Vagabond has never let me down. I have 2 of them and 4 White Lighning Strobes

Curtis N wrote in post #7943103
Take a look at the Lumedyne products.
http://www.lumedyne.co​m/

I have a Lumedyne set, and while nice, it might be a bit on the weak side power wise to overpower the sun.

This was shot with the Lumedyne through a shoot through umbrella, full power IIRC, so 200Ws (or 400Ws; I have a booster module )

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I have Explorer XT it works great with my Elinchrom DLite4