You never know what you are gonna get when Elisabeth and I shoot together. It’s like fireworks. :) She is someone I REALLY look forward to shooting with…and can’t get enough of…but our shoots last like 5 minutes because we get the shot so quickly. Well, 5 minutes is a little bit of an exaggeration. [...]
You never know what you are gonna get when Elisabeth and I shoot together. It’s like fireworks. :)
She is someone I REALLY look forward to shooting with…and can’t get enough of…but our shoots last like 5 minutes because we get the shot so quickly.
Well, 5 minutes is a little bit of an exaggeration. But it’s amazing how well we work together. She is amazing.
Our shoots are also pretty impromptu…so we met up night last November for a quick fashion shoot…and got some amazing shots. As always, I came with all of my gear in tow…and only used ONE piece of lighting gear: my newly acquired ring flash.
At the time, I hadn’t had the opportunity to use it, so I was pretty excited to test it out; not only as a ring flash, but also as another off-camera strobe. I was impressed with it’s versatility as well as the effects it could create. It instantly opened up a whole new realm of thinking, lighting, and scene creating.
The majority of these shots were taken with the ringflash mounted high camera right…there is one shot I used on camera…but I really started digging the look…and started playing with it a little more in these last several months. I’m still excited to see what I can do with it. :)
I’ve had the the Alien Bees Ringflash for the longest time and haven’t really played with it that much. Maybe I’ll need to start working with it more often. Did you use yours with a modifier or just bare?
It really is a great light…as a main light or even a kicker light…
I mostly use it with the reflector that comes with it…however, I tried using it bare the other day because I saw another photographer using it that way and it worked pretty good. Not fully sure of the differences there…I’ll have to try a few more tests.
I’ve been wanting to get the moon unit..but I’m not fully convinced from the web site examples. Waiting to hear and see samples from some other photographers. :)