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ConfusedUs posted:Does anyone have any experience with the Alien Bees vagabond II power pack? I'm not up on model names, but we have a couple of AlienBees at the office studio. I haven't used them much, but my boss thinks they're the proverbial bee's knees. They're at least as good as the Calumet monolights, and a lot cheaper, and they don't have the risk of burning holes in the floor like the Novatrons we also use. Protip: Don't plug/unplug heads while the pack is plugged in. It WILL melt the connectors into a puddle, set the floor on fire, and probably kill you. There are scorch marks all over the wood floors of the school photo studio from people slagging the big packs (edit: Speedotrons, they were). In the field, we roll with Nikon SB-800s on camera, pointed straight up with a white card rubber-banded to the back. If you must use on-camera flash, get one with a tilt head and do that -- it's the poor man's softbox. We could take the monolights out on location, but  .My favorite lighting is flashbulbs. Awfully hard to find a camera with M-sync these days, though.  Two stops brighter than the sun, in a package the size/weight of an appliance bulb. Single-use, but when you need to literally turn night into day (or get that weird underexposed-bright-sunlit background effect), it's worth it. And the sound of a magnesium flashbulb burning is awesome. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Dec 15, 2008 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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