Prior to a year or so ago, before buying my Mola Beauty Dish, my most-often used mainlight modifier for glamour photography was a 5' Photoflex Octadome. Since purchasing the Mola, I haven't once used the Octadome. But all that came to an end on Saturday. After spending a week on locations using umbrellas, I decided to pull out my Octadome and take it with me to Saturday's location. I've been spoiled by the excellent lighting characteristics of the beauty dish and had somewhat forgotten that octadomes also produce superb lighting characteristics for pretty girl shooting, most especially the Octadome's wrap-around qualities.
Sure, you lose the fall-off inherent with the beauty dish, and the dish also produces nice wrap-around lighting, but Photoflex's Octadomes provide terrific glamour lighting. Personally, I don't own a grid for my Octodome but, even without one, this softbox provides better light control than a large umbrella which scatters light everywhere. The model accompanying this entry is Kat. MUA was Liliana. Images captures with a Canon 5D w/85mm prime, ISO 100, f/5.6 @125. Photoflex 5' Octadome used as the mainlight with a Chimera strip behind and to the left and a small, silver umbrella behind the model from the right and above.
3 comments:
Just wondering... how was Kat to work with? In case you didn't know, she's a pretty big time porn star. One that will pretty much do... um... well, let's just say pretty much anything goes.
In case you didn't know, she's a pretty big time porn star.
hehehe... yah. i know. a lot of girls i shoot are a pretty big time porn star.
Just wondering... how was Kat to work with?
sorry, i didn't answer your question. she's great to work with. this isn't the first time i've shot her. she's a sweetie: easy to work with, takes direction well, easy on the eyes, know how to work the camera, what else can ya ask for?
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