The Daily Photo #35- February 4th, 2016
Anna Appelbaum
Meet Anna. Anna (pronounced Ah-na) is in charge of getting new and used gear up on our Ebay and Amazon online stores. She is an expert in fraud prevention and helps keep our store safe from scammers. Anna also has an affinity for the film ‘Escape From New York’. You know that she loves that movie when you meet her German Shepherd. His name is ‘Plisskin’ and looks just like Kurt Russell.
The beauty dish is a modifier that can be very easy to use, but takes a while to really get comfortable with. I was using it at a slightly farther-than-normal distance to the subject, which let me play with shadow contrast. I like to experiment using the BD in ways that are maybe not immediately obvious to those that see it as only a ‘glamor’ light. When the beauty dish is placed slightly away from the subject, it starts to act like a smaller light source (slightly harder, more contrasty) while still giving you wider, flatter highlight areas than you would get with a barebulb flash. Moving it away from the subject works well on men, too. Try it out for yourself, because there is endless ways to use the beauty dish and I have just started to scratch the surface.
Gear used:
- Canon 5D Mark III body
- Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS II L
- Profoto Magnum Reflector
- 2x LumoPro 12×36 Stripbox
- 2x LumoPro 12×36 grid
- LumoPro 22″ Beauty Dish
- LumoPro 22″ Grid for Universal Beauty Dish II
- 3x LumoPro C-stand
- Profoto B1 Air Remote TTL-C
- 3x Profoto B1 500 AirTTL head
See you tomorrow!
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