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Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:38 pm

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The silver parabolics give a relatively hard light. For both portraiture and products I'd like to use a soft light - and thus would like see GN with a 6 ft square and round softboxes with white lining and 2 diffusion layers. Those are usually 1.5-2 stops lower than regular umbrellas. May be 2-4 stops lower than high efficiency umbrellas.

I currently use Chimeras




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Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:32 pm

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kenyee wrote:
khook02 wrote:
I work in a studio that we can park a 18 wheeler in


Out of curiosity, have you tried taking photos of cars in that studio?
That's one of the few indoor use cases for a high powered strobe (unless you're using large format View cameras that you need around f/32 to get enough DOF). For cars, you have to pump light through fairly big modifiers to get soft light on it.
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cars and trucks are what we shoot. I have to say that we do not shoot with a veiw camera, we do have a 45ft by 22 ft chimera soft box with 8 light ports and we have mono lights 500ws each in each of the ports given us a 4000ws of over head lighting, that we can adjust and make it very even much easier then if we had 2 or 3 1500 ws lights and 8 500 ws lights are about the same price as 3 ro 4 1500ws lights.




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