Elinchrom it has been the standard go to traveling
large beautiful lights Adorama TV presents
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McNally for Adorama TV
and in this segment I'm gonna talk to you about the effective one
large beautiful light source in another video we did
with the same model Maggie very beautiful we
talked about introducing motion while you're
using Flash in this I have the same subject Maggie
but I'm completely controlling her with flash and I'm gonna talk about just
one large beautiful light source and the powerful effect it has
on the face for portraiture this light that I'm talking about is the 74 inch
Elinchrom Octa it has been the standard go to traveling
big light source for photographers for many years
I think I bought my first one you know maybe twenty years ago maybe even longer
ago
it's been a standard in the industry you know
for easily that law so what it is it's an indirect softbox
most of boxes are direct the lamp head goes in the softbox and points towards
the subject
in this enormous of box the lamp head gets turned around
okay so the stroke ahead the flash head actually radiate away from the subject
into the silver interior the box and then radiates through the diffusion
in a very smooth even way you can ramp up the power
this the softness of it by moving your subject close
so here I'm on a black background and I take my subject right here
and then I take this huge light source
and I knew it extremely close to her so I'm just sneaking my camera right around
in here
okay so my camera angle is right here and on looking at her right at the edge
the corner
the softbox she is literally
just Dave in light here's a quick tip:
this is a big thing to move around the set
in the middle %uh the light she's just
literally covered in light if you want to change the effect
up this particular lighting solution don't move the softbox
that's kind of a pain in the neck move your subject relative to the softbox
so in other words if there in the middle
they're going to get a complete washout light if you put them
at the edges they'll be more drama more fall off
the light will still be soft but you introduce an incredibly beautiful shadow
I think you see on the photograph behind me there that the late is soft and
beautiful
but it rotates relatively quickly into shadow that means
she's working right at the edge of the softbox let me show it to you this
is this 74 inch Octa okay it's so
legendary light you know as I said it's a staple travel photographers
for many many years it's so popular that our crime actually
makes them with different speed ring so they can adapt to different kinds a
flash heads
so it's got a port for the wire where you place
your large flat in here right here
this is Joe McNally for at around a TV
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