I have two Alien Bee's 400 and I can't speak highly enough about them.
For the money they can't be beat!
http://alienbees.com/b400.html
Russ
R.E. Baker
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From: <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Shopping for Lighting and IR
any idea on flash duration for these?
I have a bunch of studio lighting but it's all 240V.
I'm moving to the States around August and I'll look for a little
commercial work
I must weigh up the option of selling and re-buying with getting all the
transformers changed.
I find that with digital SLR (Even my full-frame) I almost always have too
much light to get the shallow DOF I need (Min ISO 200)
But some lights have a ridiculously long flash duration (650th) and I need
high-speed to capture blur-free movement.
Herschel
Mark Lent wrote:
For a home studio, I'd HIGHLY recommend the Alien Bee's 400 series. More
than enough light to use, well built, slaved and a ton of accessories
that
will allow your arsenal to grow. I have also found mine to be very
consistent too.
Hope this helps.
Mark Lent
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From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor
Cunningham
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:23 AM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Shopping for Lighting and IR
Hey gang,
This summer, I'll be shopping for some new gear. I'm interested in
materials toward the objective of a home studio for portraiture and
table-top still life. There's tons of websites dedicated to the subject,
almost to the point of them being overwhelming. I'm not sure if I should
go with monolights, speedlights, etc. From what I've seen, I like the
portability and space-saving capacity of multiple speedlights/slaves, but
I have no idea as to the power I would need. Any thoughts? What do you
have or wish you had in your studio? If you had to start over, what you
get first?
IR: I would also like to start doing more macro IR work indoors. I
understand that most incandescent sources serve well for IR, but how does
this translate into speed/mono lights? Also, I'd like to achieve a black
background and wonder what color/type of material would reflect the least
amount of IR radiation. A black velvet? I remember Andy sharing something
along these lines a few years back.
Cheers...Trevor
