Strobe Umbrella
lighting setups for a beauty shots with 1 umbrella and 1 softbox?
I own 2 200 w/s strobes, 1 soft box and 1 umbrella (with the reflector)
I googled lighting setups for the beauty and portrait shots, but couldn not find anything...
Maybe you know some of them?
Thanks
http://www.pbase.com/inspzil/image/119609638
Firstly, I only use this setup with black backgrounds. You can use it with non-black backgrounds, but you need some background lighting.
In this shot, you can see where the light is on the model, pretty far off to the left of frame. The catchlight gives that away. This is the softbox side (which actually is a shoot thru umbrella). The light is a 300 w/s light about 1/2 power or a little more. The back is one strobe pointed almost right at the softbox, but down at the model's head. Its turned down almost all the way, with a reflector and bare bulb.
If you can get a couple of the bulb type strobes that just screw into any regular light socket, those things are handy as hell for a rudimentary back light, hair light, background light... whatever. They're just little slave strobes, a little slow on the recycle time, but inexpensive. You can put them in clamp lights or buy the socket with the umbrella holder.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Slave-Flash-Swivel-AC-Umbrella-Adapter_W0QQitemZ350279689631QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item518e4be59f
Like this. They just fit on a regular light stand. You can get these with the stand and all on ebay too for like $40 or so. They come in handy. I just kept my eyes open and got a couple as the first bidder for like $1, adapter and bulb. Those days unfortunately are probably gone, but you can still get them pretty cheap. Best of Luck.
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