AlienBees Outdoor Shoot
Here are some sample shots I made with a pair of AlienBees monolights. Overall, I feel like they performed very well. In fact, I had no problem what-so-ever. I can not say enough good things about my Innovatronix Explorer XT portable power unit. The lights functioned just as if they were plugged into a regular wall outlet with identical recycle times and performance. Obviously, you can’t use the modeling lights with a portable power pack, but I liberally used them for a couple seconds at a time and saw no impact on the charge of the unit.
The setup on these shots is fairly straight forward. The key light is a PW’d AlienBees B1600 at about 1/4 power with a 47″ octobox setup on a C-Stand with grip arm. The octobox is about 3 feet above and to the side of the subject pointing down at her.
The second light is another PW’d AlienBees B800 with a 10 degree honeycomb grid firing at about 3/4 power toward the subjects feet to light up the ground a little. On some shots, I moved the B800 directly behind the subject to act as a hair/rim light. Same settings.
All images taken on a Nikon D3, with a Nikkor 28-70mm f2.8 @ ISO 200 and roughly 1 – 1/2 second @ f6.
very nice