 Andrew Laverghetta |
can you help me start my light collection? Hello everybody, I'm looking to get some studio style lights that I can also use on location and this is what I've come up with so far. I've found that a lot of people like alienbees (www.alienbees.com) and they are also the makers of white lightning (www.white-lightning.com) or rather, paul c. buff is the maker I guess. I would rather get the white lightning but the prices of the actual flash units are getting just out of my range with what other stuff I'm looking for. I'll supply a(n) url to a screen shot of a shopping cart I put together but before that, I have made some changes that aren't on this screen shots. I decided to ditch the travel case for the two carrying cases that carry a single light since I have some other stuff that I can use, plus instead of two B400 (400w/s) strobes, I put two B800's. I think that should be all, though I may have also added some warming filters and a 10% or 20% grid. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v417/laverghetta/?action=view¤t=Alienbeesorder.jpg WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR I'm looking for a versatile setup with many options that can do many different things while looking decently pro. I'm looking at different things like the color gels/filters for effects when the sun is going down (location) and when in studio or if I ever shoot anything else at night and need some kind of a rim light. What I'm looking for is to control a light with different options, I'd like to be able to have a background light that's decently focused but can also be used as a hair light so I'm looking at different honeycomb grids. I'm also hoping to get some good portrait/glamour/beauty style stuff and I've seen the beautydish used in videos and it looks great, plus I'm used to using a very large softbox at my school's light studio so I'm adding the giant softbox. What do you think? I'm seeing if I can get it narrowed down some, but I dont' want to sacrifice ideas that I may have, or have to make/rig up something that doesn't look at least a little bit pro. If you've got questions for anything that I have on there or you'd like me to be more specific in an area,just ask and I'll do my best but I just tried to give a brief rundown on what I was thinking. These are some of the pics that I'm looking to imitate for a little white before exploring on my own...plus I have some of my stuff at www.myspace.com/andylav (I especially like the photo with the gray background)... http://myspace-060.vo.llnwd.net/00298/06/08/298348060_l.jpg -can't find the other example but- I'd like to be able to do mock cover shots for different beauty magazines and then there are shots where a model has good light at the front of say, a thigh or arm, and it falls off as the skin wraps around her. Kind of hard to explain but I hope you can understand my babble, haha. Thanks so much!
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