Thank you, Walt. I couldn't wait for the octagonal umbrella softbox I ordered through eBay as I was suddenly confronted with two impending shoots, so I zoomed over to my local AV pusher and bought their floor model Westcott on sale, drastically reduced, with stand and umbrella mount. When the Chinese knock-off arrives I'll now be able to compare build quality against the Real Thing. My new Westcott Apollo is the traditional square shape, while the soon to arrive one is a clone of the Westcott "Orb", an octagonal shaped softbox. I actually prefer the rounder octa for its natural looking catchlights.
Good luck with your shoot tonight; break a leg! On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > Beautiful light, Bruce! And a great shot of friends enjoying one another's > company. > > Now that you've served as the guinea pig for the softbox, I'll revisit the > bookmark from when you pointed it out to me and order one for myself along > with a genuine lighting stand this week. > > I'm doing a portrait shoot tomorrow evening, so I won't have it in time for > that. But, I'll make the best I can of what I've got at the moment. > > Great work. I'm looking forward to trying my hand at eventually getting > similar results someday. > > -- Walt > > > > On 7/2/2013 8:16 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Had a really fun practice shoot this past Sunday evening with my wife >> and our artist friends, very informal and arranged so I could get some >> air time with location lighting gear. >> >> I'm newly enabled with a Westcott Apollo Medium (28") softbox, picked >> up Saturday, and I can now heartily endorse that kit after two >> two-hour shoots and various playing about in my office studio. It >> folds and mounts like an umbrella, is very light weight, and is an >> amazingly efficient light source. It does act like a sail though and >> very nearly blew over despite a 20 or 30 pound weight on its stand. I >> need to refine my sandbagging technique. >> >> I concentrated on individual portraiture with varying mixes of ambient >> light, but I also did a few quick (meaning not well posed) group shots >> just to see how that'd work. This one really grabbed me ... >> >> http://flic.kr/p/f1KeGj >> >> K20D, DA* 16-50mm/2.8, F5.6, 1/160th, ISO 400. >> AF540FGZ on wireless trigger in Apollo 28" softbox; gelled with Rosco >> #02: Bastard Straw. >> Lr & Nik Suite. >> >> More results coming later. >> >> -- >> -bmw >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
