Hey this is Daniel for Adorama.
I'm here on 18th Street with Serena and we’re going to do some head shots using the Photoflex
light panels kit
and the LiteReach. So you get it as a kit here and comes it comes in this nice bag.
So the LiteReach itself is a nine foot long boom.
You can use it just go to hold out over things. You can rest it
against your leg or because it's so long
and if your gonna use a diffusion fabric like we are today. What's nice is you can
put it by your foot like this
and you can really extend the thing up over
and have you know somebody hold it with really no problem with the weight.
So on top is just a standard 5 8 stud.
And the way this thing works is your frame here, this is a 39-inch frame.
Basically
these corners here just pop together
and there you go. So here is your attachment plate
now this one unlike some frames, this one here is a flat bottom here.
So once you get up in the air your not gonna have a problem with the wind moving this
thing because its ’s nice and tight and the connector is
right here just slides right on.
You’ve got a 5 8 receptacle there.
You're just all here so I can take my right reach
slide in there and basically I’ve got a little system and by the way if you want to just use
this thing to kick back some light as a reflector let’s say if someone is backlit you can
actually sent it up like this with the reflective fabric.
So it’s a nice little system. We're going to start with the diffuser.
You get the bag, the frame, the LiteReach itself and the diffusion panel with
the kit. In addition you can add an accessory.
You've got reflective fabrics there’s also a grid that goes on this so if your shooting light
through it it's really nice, good way to control it. So these little rubber bands
here
just go right around corners. There we go. So once you figure out what angle you want
to get it at you just lock it down.
Make sure all my connectors are tight here so we don’t drop it on her head. Then
I’m just gonna go like this.
You can see I can easily take this
and hold it right over top. There you go.
So lets go make some head shots. What's great about this
scrim it's really easy to hold like I said you can put it on the ground. We can see now
that Serena's in
pretty much terrible light and I can take the scrim
just reach it over the top of her. You got two benefits to this. One it's giving her nice
natural soft light. The other thing is gonna make the background a little bit lighter
because her exposure is going to be a little bit darker under the scrim. Which is going to give her a little bit
more separation. So if we can have Sam hole that for a second. Whats nice here is I can actually
turn and get the building lit up behind her it will really make a nice bright
background. It defiantly changes the mood of the shot. You can have her
alot more smiley and stuff. You get this kinda bright environment it's really nice.
So this is the
the Photoflex Octodome nxt: Extra Small Kit. It comes with this nice metal bracket
for your Speedlite, so you can mount everything on here. Theres an extra shoe here if you
have a radio or
or something like a pocket wizard. This flash has the radio built in so I don’t need that.
it's a nice foot and half roughly Octagon so it’s going to be nice
for a head shot up close it will give some nice dimensions. Were outside right now so every things
kind of airy. But if I wanna add a lil character
I'm gonna overpower the daylight a little bit with this is and come in and make a nice soft light
across her face.
So basically I can bring this thing over. I like to light her from this side.
Part of the reason I’m put the light on this side is if the sun comes out it'll block the sun. I’m just
gonna bring it nice and close we're gonna give a nice
wrap around light with this. Here you go Sam.
Thank you. So you can see the system's really simple and easy to use you can
see even
my petit assistants is able to hold this thing nice and high up over the air. It’s about
9ft in the air right now giving a top-light on our model.
A little bit like. Here we go.
Ok this is really nice. It's a little bit more shadowy then i'd like on the one
side.
Fortunately for me, I’ve got a reflector and Peter.
So Peter can bring the reflector around this side. Yep bounce the flash into the other side.
You can bring it nice and close. Yeah that should be nice.
Okay.
Here we go.
Beautiful. Oh yeah. One more. Actually lets
bring this a little more to the front because she has kind of a rounded face.
Beautiful. Good. Okay so we're gonna start, its kinda cloudy right now but
another great use for this besides blocking the Sun is I'm going to use as
a light modifier.
I've got a external flash here and a radio to fire it/ I'm basically gonna take my
diffuser move it to the side here and I'm gonna take my flash and just sit on the ground
behind here. Its gonna shoot the light up
kinda like having a soft box over here. Good
Good. Oh beautiful.
So what I’m doing here is I’m mostly just matching my flash to my environment. Just
to kind of clean it up. Sometimes a little bit of flash kicking will just clean up
that skin tone.
Saves you a lot of time in post.
Yeah thats nice.
If i wanna do an impromptu white background I can also can spin around
here.
There you go. This is really great as it's set up as it is if I had a lot of sun coming form this direction
I could throw a reflector on here as well if I didn’t have the flash with me. So it's got a lot of
uses in that sense.
So now we’ve switched to the silver reflective fabric on the light panel and I'm
I'm using the LiteReach here just as a stand just to make it easier for Samantha to
hold it in place.
Am it gives a beautiful catch light in her eyes we just gonna clean up her skin again with a
little reflection.
Just like that. Good, that's perfect.
Alright that was a great shoot I wanna thank Photoflex for letting us use the LiteReach
light panel kit. It’s a great kit to keep in your car just have ready for
any opportunity you have do to shoot.
So we really wanna know what did you think of this? Leave some comments below let me
know how you’d use this kit. Be sure to subscribe to Adorama TV
and I’ll see you next time.
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