JJM
05-02-2015, 12:55pm
My wife and I are planning a few more beauty shoots for her makeup business website and general marketing and I want to try and improve my setup a little.
Currently I have the following lighting gear and want to keep the purchasing of new gear to a minimum if possible
Elinchrom D-Lite 4 Kite with the square soft boxes
580EX II Flash (No stand or transmitter yet..)
First aim is to be able to able change the background colour quickly and easily using gels on a flash. After a little research grey backgrounds seem to be able to changed to various colours (reds, blues, greens) and depending on light setup also get the black or almost white.
I am not sure if I could use my 580EX II for this or if I need to use one of my D-Lites?
Is Grey actually the best background colour to use for this purpose? Or is white better?
Planning on getting Vinyl background at this stage as the long term horizontal storage of paper worries me or should I not be worried about it.
Secondly, I want to try a different light modifier rather than the square soft boxes, looking very seriously at either a 70cm Elinchrom white beauty dish or maybe an Indirect Soft Box or a Large Parabolic Umbrella.
Should I consider a Silver beauty dish over a white one?
Are grids worthwhile on the beauty dish?
Knowing the type of photos going to be shooting what do you guys recommend?
I am open to any other suggestions anyone has?
Thirdly, if I am using for example one of my D-Lites with some gels to light my background and say another in a beauty dish.
In an ideal world should I be looking to either use my 580EX II as a hair/rim light?
I have seen tutorials where they use a further two studio strobes one on each side as hair/rim lights is this really necessary?
Thanks in advance and if anyone has any further suggestions I am all ears.
Jeremy
Currently I have the following lighting gear and want to keep the purchasing of new gear to a minimum if possible
Elinchrom D-Lite 4 Kite with the square soft boxes
580EX II Flash (No stand or transmitter yet..)
First aim is to be able to able change the background colour quickly and easily using gels on a flash. After a little research grey backgrounds seem to be able to changed to various colours (reds, blues, greens) and depending on light setup also get the black or almost white.
I am not sure if I could use my 580EX II for this or if I need to use one of my D-Lites?
Is Grey actually the best background colour to use for this purpose? Or is white better?
Planning on getting Vinyl background at this stage as the long term horizontal storage of paper worries me or should I not be worried about it.
Secondly, I want to try a different light modifier rather than the square soft boxes, looking very seriously at either a 70cm Elinchrom white beauty dish or maybe an Indirect Soft Box or a Large Parabolic Umbrella.
Should I consider a Silver beauty dish over a white one?
Are grids worthwhile on the beauty dish?
Knowing the type of photos going to be shooting what do you guys recommend?
I am open to any other suggestions anyone has?
Thirdly, if I am using for example one of my D-Lites with some gels to light my background and say another in a beauty dish.
In an ideal world should I be looking to either use my 580EX II as a hair/rim light?
I have seen tutorials where they use a further two studio strobes one on each side as hair/rim lights is this really necessary?
Thanks in advance and if anyone has any further suggestions I am all ears.
Jeremy