What color Alien Bees do you prefer?

What color is your fav? If you were buying used, which color would you want?

Feel free to vote for more than one. Sort of like Dancing with the Stars, ea?

I color code mine....
My AB 800's are Black
My AB 1600's are White

Not to into the neon colors

Please, no one attack me or think I'm a Buff hater for saying this but I've seem images and setup shots with the neon colored Bees, and surprisingly when placed close to background and lighter colors, they can return a color cast that is the color of the plastic casing.

I would stick to black and white and not go near the 'Alien' colors.

well this would be true with anything colored, put the model on a red dress close to the background and see if the background doesn't get red reflected on it.

I wouldn't worry too much unless you're in a very cramped space with lots of reflective surfaces.

I would love for them to all be fluorescent colors. too bad its only the pink and green ones. I would of thought the limited edition flame orange would be fluorescent as well but no.

I saw this with a green Bee in a large studio. The cases are highly reflective. I just think it's a silly idea and one more thing to worry about when trying to control an environment.

TMR Design wrote in post #8018837
I saw this with a green Bee in a large studio. The cases are highly reflective. I just think it's a silly idea and one more thing to worry about when trying to control an environment.

I think fun colors are exactly that... TMR likes Manual focus, I think it is way to slow for my liking...

Well I have not had any problems with mine, I have a pink and a green one. Can you link to the photo you mention to see what the problem is?
It also would depend on the positioning of the lights for example

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I have #117 in orange.

Why do you need a link? A high reflective surface close to the background getting hit by light will reflect that light onto the background.

MR do little wrote in post #8019312
Why do you need a link? A high reflective surface close to the background getting hit by light will reflect that light onto the background.

In theory yes. Practically I could not imagine a setup where this would be true.
So I would be interested in seeing an example too.
If you do not see the light casing in the frame you most probably will not see its reflection either. (My ABs were black and white so I am not trying to promote 'mine' )

vadim_c wrote in post #8019924
In theory yes. Practically I could not imagine a setup where this would be true.
So I would be interested in seeing an example too.
If you do not see the light casing in the frame you most probably will not see its reflection either. (My ABs were black and white so I am not trying to promote 'mine' )

That how it works in practical terms.

Yes the position of the reflective surface plays a huge role as wether the color of the strobe casing will pose as a problem or not.

Using that logic you would need a reflector to be seen in the frame to have a effect on the final image.

Eitherway, Robert have enough knowledge & experience to be credible in my eyes. So i dont need a link to prove something he have seen, besides i dont think Robert ever mentioned to have a "link".

Bottomline:
I wouldnt stay away from AB cause of the problem the colored casing may pose, there are plenty of other reasons for me.

But since the thread is about the aesthetic things of strobes, i must confess that the AB's design is just about the worst there is (in my eyes) when it comes to studio lightning.

Well I am interested and I don't know anybody in the forum personally to know how much knowledge anyone has. My logic didn't come out to the same conclusion as Robert said. He didn't mention link but he did mention "images and setup shots" since I rarely see prints anymore I thought he might of seen them online.

And me having pink and green bees would be interesting to see the examples he mentioned in order to be cautious about it.

I bought all black lights. I think the colored lights draw too much attention to them. IMO, black lights look more "professional" too.

Sorry guys, no link to images. It's just something I had seen a while back and found it interesting. The image was of a model standing in front of a white background and there was an odd green tint coming in from the right side of the frame.

A neon green Bee was used as an accent light for effect and was positioned about 12" from the background and directing light in towards the center. Apparently there was enough light falling on the green casing to cause a reflection and color cast to appear on the white background on that side of the frame.

That image was seriously green. I might be wrong but I remember the picture as using a bounce umbrella where the light came back over the lights body and picked up the green tint.