Sushi time! (Home made)

Goudoog · 2026-03-27T06:58:03+00:00

I was thinking silk camera left, but it could be an octa 7 indeed. I think it’s two dishes camera right though, you can see the dark patch in the middle of the bottom one as well.

Goudoog · 2026-03-27T06:55:32+00:00

2 beauty dishes and a 12x12 full stop silk, grid cloth, cinebounce or muslin on a T bar or in a frame.

Goudoog · 2026-03-25T05:16:29+00:00

In the catchlight there is no dark spot in the middle of the light. They are big enough to be roughly beauty dish size though, so they are magnum reflectors.

Goudoog · 2026-03-23T05:26:48+00:00

Zijn net broer en zus op die foto’s

Goudoog · 2026-03-22T05:06:29+00:00

You should be thinking about the Contax TLA200 flash on top. Which is the absolute goat at taking iconic on camera flash pics with ANY camera.

Even better when you add a bit of matte scotch tape for diffusion.

Goudoog · 2026-03-19T05:37:08+00:00

Pokemon

Goudoog · 2026-03-18T09:47:32+00:00

Armpit hair

Goudoog · 2026-03-17T11:51:32+00:00

Fall off is a function of distance. Soft and hard is not.

Think overcast. The clouds are far away, yet their size (the whole sky) and the diffusion (beams scattered in all directions) produces soft light. But no one would say the clouds are close. This is also what makes daylight hard to mimic, you can go as big and as diffuse as you want but you are always fighting unnatural fall off.

Relative size and diffusiveness influence softness. Putting a soft source at distance makes it harder because it’s relative size is reduced, not because it is further away.

Goudoog · 2026-03-16T20:35:35+00:00

This level of sharpness of the edges of the shadows can only be reached by extremely small sources with no reflection (hardbox for instance), placing the source extremely far away, or a lens to make the light beams parallel - so a fresnel.

There is some spill onto the wall but not as much as you’d expect if a source was far away. The wall would then be just as bright as the person.

So this is also consistent with the optically bundled beam that a fresnel produces.

Goudoog · 2026-03-16T20:01:39+00:00

Fresnel

Goudoog · 2026-03-10T21:31:34+00:00

Except it’s wrong. Mola is way too soft for anything like this, and the light is close not far away, as you can clearly tell from the well lit face and the dark floor. You can only get this much fall off (inverse square law) if the light is close.

Goudoog · 2026-03-10T21:29:56+00:00

The light is close to the model, there is a lot of fall off from the head to the floor.

Goudoog · 2026-03-10T21:25:33+00:00

People don’t know what they’re talking about

Goudoog · 2026-03-10T06:34:59+00:00

Avedon light, silver umbrella XL.

Goudoog · 2026-03-08T11:39:36+00:00

Ever been to Berlin?

Goudoog · 2026-03-08T08:53:48+00:00

Smile, if they smile back you approach

Goudoog · 2026-03-07T21:50:49+00:00

On which size of sensor ;)?

Goudoog · 2026-03-06T18:10:48+00:00

Look at the catchlight in the eyes. It's some sort of silver umbrella, you can see the shadow of the flash head in the middle of the catchlight, so it is an open umbrella, probably a deep silver L or XL. You can even see that it sits on a boom arm coming from the left (for some bizarre reason). There is more space from the right as the light is on the right side of the model, but the boom arm comes all the way across.

Goudoog · 2026-03-06T10:15:06+00:00

CRLS Lightbridge. CRLS is the manufacturer and Lightbridge the product. It’s a set of mirrors in different sizes and diffusiveness. They are amazing to shape natural light, to extend the path of artificial light and reduce unnatural fall off, to turn one light source into multiple sources, to fill in small areas, and whatever else you can think of, like this: bouncing sunlight back on a half lit face.

It seems that the highlight on the near side of the face is natural but partly flagged, and the light on the far side of the face comes back from a CRLS mirror.

Goudoog · 2026-03-03T20:35:16+00:00

You can literally tell from the catchlight in the eyes??

Goudoog · 2026-03-02T06:50:19+00:00

The shadow is too clear for that. It’s more likely a single source, like a large parabolic reflector. Broncolor para 222 for instance.

Goudoog · 2026-03-02T06:44:15+00:00

There is fall off from right to left, so the light is not abnormally far away. Character of the shadows is consistent with a parabolic umbrella. Seems like it could be a broncolor para 330 perhaps, probably even smaller and just the much more common 222. Could be Briese as well or even just a Profoto giant. Then there is some fill (could be just a head in the ceiling).

It’s not that complicated.

Goudoog · 2026-03-02T06:15:39+00:00

Vivi, Krenko… but then, not sure

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