DHolman opened this issue on May 06, 2004 ยท 8 posts
DHolman posted Thu, 06 May 2004 at 2:39 PM
A nosey little someone asked how I set up the lights for these, so I thought I'd just post response here in case anyone else wondered. Lights: Speedotron 2403 Blackline pack (2400WS) with three 102 2400WS heads (I have yet to go beyond using 800WS during any session). Also have available 3 each of: softboxes, umbrellas, grids and bunch of different reflectors, snoots, etc. I'm really proud of myself for not just throwing a bunch of stuff on the heads 'cause it's there and using only what I need. This set up: Single head (800WS) mounted above model on boom(about 8-9ft up and slightly to camera left) with reflector, grid and barndoors (grid to diffuse light a little for a softer shadow edge and barn doors to give better control of where the light fell). Wanted fast shutter speed with small aperture (think around 1/160th at f/22 or something like that). The setup from the other image: Two heads - key light 800WS mounted above model on boom(about 10-12ft) with softbox and 400WS background light with softbox (so that the light spread out and didn't give me a bright spot (not a lot of room on that side to move the light back further from the background). Metered for f/11. Wanted a good DOF so that I could get sharpness from lace to model. Anything I would have done different? On this setup, moved the light another 2 feet or so higher. The lace one, nope...really liked how that worked out.