I am working on building my people portfolio this month and Laura was kind enough to pose for me.
These shots are very straight forward. Alienbees B800 key light with large octodome with grid and another Alienbees B800 with medium softbox for fill.
Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Ellenberger. They were married in Berkeley, CA on June 26th 2009. The ceremony was held in an amazing redwood forest in the Berkeley botanical gardens.
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.
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