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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 122166" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>For my main and fill lights, I use 550WS Britek strobes in rectangular soft boxes. I use a snoot on a 150WS strobe for hair light. I will sometimes use barn doors on a 200WS strobe for a single background light and if I need to evenly light a background I will use 2 150 WS strobes just using the reflectors. I have gotten away pretty much from using umbrellas unless I am dragging stuff to a location, because they are a lot more portable and a lot quicker to set back up. I prefer white nylon ones because depending on what I want to do with them, I can shoot through them or reflect off of them. For reflectors I have a 30" circular one which twists and folds to about a foot or so. It is normally translucent white, but I have things I can slip and zipper over it to make it black for a gobo, golden or silver. I use muslin backgrounds pretty much exclusively, except for my home made 31" cubed light tent, where I use half width seamless background paper. For a stool I use a spare drummer's throne (got several since I went to more of a chair style throne) for short stuff and a larger one wiht an adjustable round seat (has that screw thing to raise and lower it). <em>Lots</em> of light and background stands of various heights and sizes, both straight and with arms. And of course I could not do anything without a Sekonic L-358 flash/incident meter. All of my flash heads are stand alone Britek units so each has its own built in optical slave. I use a single RF on the main light and let the rest of them just slave off of it.</p><p></p><p>For film, the Hasselblad 500CM is used primarily with the 150mm f/4 Sonnar or the 80mm f/2.8 Planar, and for smaller format and all the commercial stuff where the client wants proofs <em>yesterday (</em>you can't use that "the film's or proof's in the mail" excuse any more<em>)</em>, I use the D700 and 85 f/1.4 or 105mm f/1.8 AIS Nikkors.</p><p></p><p>And my garage, which is my 23' square makeshift studio is in somewhat of a state of disarray so there are no photos! I need to go straighten that place up!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 122166, member: 12827"] For my main and fill lights, I use 550WS Britek strobes in rectangular soft boxes. I use a snoot on a 150WS strobe for hair light. I will sometimes use barn doors on a 200WS strobe for a single background light and if I need to evenly light a background I will use 2 150 WS strobes just using the reflectors. I have gotten away pretty much from using umbrellas unless I am dragging stuff to a location, because they are a lot more portable and a lot quicker to set back up. I prefer white nylon ones because depending on what I want to do with them, I can shoot through them or reflect off of them. For reflectors I have a 30" circular one which twists and folds to about a foot or so. It is normally translucent white, but I have things I can slip and zipper over it to make it black for a gobo, golden or silver. I use muslin backgrounds pretty much exclusively, except for my home made 31" cubed light tent, where I use half width seamless background paper. For a stool I use a spare drummer's throne (got several since I went to more of a chair style throne) for short stuff and a larger one wiht an adjustable round seat (has that screw thing to raise and lower it). [I]Lots[/I] of light and background stands of various heights and sizes, both straight and with arms. And of course I could not do anything without a Sekonic L-358 flash/incident meter. All of my flash heads are stand alone Britek units so each has its own built in optical slave. I use a single RF on the main light and let the rest of them just slave off of it. For film, the Hasselblad 500CM is used primarily with the 150mm f/4 Sonnar or the 80mm f/2.8 Planar, and for smaller format and all the commercial stuff where the client wants proofs [I]yesterday ([/I]you can't use that "the film's or proof's in the mail" excuse any more[I])[/I], I use the D700 and 85 f/1.4 or 105mm f/1.8 AIS Nikkors. And my garage, which is my 23' square makeshift studio is in somewhat of a state of disarray so there are no photos! I need to go straighten that place up! [/QUOTE]
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