Hi I'm Tamara Lackey and in this episode of the reDefine Show
for AdoramaTV I bring you along for shoot I do with Profoto's new
B2 lighting system, check out exactly how these lightweight,
powerful TTL and high-speed sync enabled lights work and what they can do.
AdoramaTV presents,
The reDefine Show with Tamara Lackey.
Hi I'm Tamara Lackey and we're out here in a state park in North Carolina
doing a photo shoot and it is cold, it is winter
and it is about 38 degrees or something with some nice wind coming in
and kind of dreary, cloudy dreary day so
not the sort of day that you're like; 'Let me go out and do a photoshoot' but there are times
when you have to go out and do a photoshoot because thats the only date that works
and in our case we're really lucky because we're working with Profoto B2 lights
which are studio power, they're like having strobes
that I'd have at my studio but they're very simple, they're very lightweight, they're very
easy to use and they're extremely portable and thats a very good thing because we're going to jump
around from situation to situation to situation
and I want to be able to move quickly, not have everybody freeze but be able to get the kind of light
I want to control, so check it out!
So what we're doing is we brought the light up here
so we can really emphasize this
gorgeous light on the hair and I'm coming in closer
and we're shooting with a very shallow depth of field
I just want to adjust this shot a little bit and I want a wider shot so I'm going to ask both of my assistants
to step back about two or three paces and I can simply just
go to my remote and pump it up a little bit more as I step backwards so I can have a wider frame
but the same controlled light.
So you're literally going to be like that
and then I'm going to really
power that light up and the idea is with a whole pile of leaves
and they'll go up like this behind her and it will be one quick click.
What I'm doing right here is changing the lighting
so that she is really popping out, I'd love a backlight on her too
lets throw a backlight on too.
So out here on this bridge where its so tight and precarious-ish
all I need really for this entire portable studio system
is the flash which is the B2 heads, the
battery generator, the light shaper which is our lighting modifier our deep umbrella
and the Profoto Air Remote TTL for Nikon
that pairs with my Nikon D4 S. I'm shooting with the 85mm 1.4 lens
and that's pretty much all I need to have the strobe studio power
out here pretty much anywhere!
Ok so we've been out here shooting for a while and we've been doing a lot of
fast shooting so really, really fast recycling I'm quite impressed
and we are running through this battery but luckily I have a backup battery.
So I simply just have to pull this out, pop the backup battery on
get it started again and we can keep shooting.
I hope you enjoyed that freezing cold adventure
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