Re: Looking to buy some strobe flashes

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Its rental fees and a little extra are coverd
by my very first client


Your client is an ax-murderer? What is that thing?

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Jason Davis <mohadib@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thak you all for the replies. Mark I read your article and found it
very informitive , thanks.
Im still feel very uninformed , so I'm going to hold off for a while.
I rented the lights
again for the weekend. Its rental fees and a little extra are coverd
by my very first client :)

Please take a look and give me any input you will :)

Thanks,
jd

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4853/smallhorzdn7.jpg

This one is for me , Im going to work on it to try to make it feel
a little more rich and less monochromatic

http://papernapkin.org/pastebin/resource/images/imageEntryId/181

But i would really like to do something with the shadows. Any pointers or ideas?

thanks again :)

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:29 AM, herschel <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is interesting to note how my flash-power requirements have changed with
>  trends in photography.
>
>  Now that shallow depth of field is trendy, I have a slew of f:1.4 and f:1.8
>  lenses which I'm using on my D2X. (The 85mm f:1.4 is a honey!)
>
>  With smaller sensor sizes/decreased magnification, and the resulting
>  increase of DOF, you need very fast and expensive lenses to make your pics
>  look like they were shot on a $5 Lomo.
>
>  But I do love those natural light, backlit, lifestylish images with shallow
>  DOF that are popular in commercial photography these days.
>  Portraits by window-light at f:2.0 (Carefully focused) knock the spots off
>  those f:22 old-fashioned studio images with perfect light ratios
>
>  I find that my 2400WS pack is out of service and even my 500W Bowens heads
>  are too powerful to get apertures of f:4 or wider... so I have now bought a
>  collection of ND filters... mmm at 55 I'm a spendoid-trendoid!
>
>  Still it's cheaper than going 4X5 digital.
>
>  Before you tell me to shoot large format film and scan it etc...
>  Here in Oman we don't have 4X5 E6 film processing available. Nor do I have a
>  scanner which could handle it.
>
>  That's all folks
>
>  herschel
>
>
>
>
>
>  >>-----Original Message-----
>  >>From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-
>  >>photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Davis
>  >>Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:10 AM
>  >>To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
>  >>Subject: Looking to buy some strobe flashes
>  >>
>  >>Hello,
>  >> I'm a total newb at lighting. I have rented some strobes and I really
>  >>like playing with them. But its costing me $125 a day for 2 lights ,
>  >>umbrellas , stands , battery pack,
>  >>wireless sync thing..
>  >>
>  >>I have no clue if thats a good price or not.. Anyway , I see lots of
>  >>affordable lights for sale on the internet , and the owner of the
>  >>store i rent from offerd me 2
>  >>300w/s strobe heads for $700. I cant remember the brand name :\ To
>  >>finaly get to the ponit... :p  Can you guys point me at some
>  >>information for beginners looking
>  >>to buy lights? Stuff that can help me figure out what i want/need and
>  >>information to help me know what kind of price I should look to pay.
>  >>
>  >>Thank You,
>  >>Jason
>
>




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