Comments on: How To Get Studio Quality Lighting On A Moving Subject

By: Travis Tank

Travis Tank — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:23:00 +0000

Sure Carlos, The inverter was a vagabond inverter just rigged through the car and golf cart batteries. And as for Marc I understand your point. This was done a while back and was more of a test trial for something I had never done before and if I did it again I would probably do it differently. Appreciate all the comments though, positive or negative.

By: Carlos García

Carlos García — Mon, 30 May 2011 06:07:00 +0000

Mmm I wonder if Travis could help us out with the inverter he used to power the flash head… =)

By: Marc Pagani

Marc Pagani — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:14:00 +0000

Nice concept, but the premise of the video seems to be that it’s a BTS about how one goes about shooting action with studio lighting. The issue I see is that except for two shots in the middle of the video that were unsharp but appeared to have some effects from fill flash (studio-quality lighting), the images don’t really give us the sense that “studio-quality lighting” was used to shoot action. There are two static portraits (not action), and one other action still that appears to be lit solely by the sun, low in the sky. Love to see some real effects from the studio flash, to the point that someone would see the images and ask “wow, was this shot in the studio and then the background was added later?” Just don’t get that effect from the still images presented, though I appreciate the effort that went into it. I think a smaller softbox or softlight reflector, or, if you’re going for a more contrasty look, Profoto’s Magnum reflector, may have been better choices than such a big umbrella. Just my 2 cents.

By: Mars Oliva

Mars Oliva — Sat, 28 May 2011 06:39:00 +0000

I did similar to this for a long boarding shoot. Mounted a continuous lighting 650 to the back of a Honda, I sat in the trunk, fun stuff. Looks a ton better if you can get the light far enough offboard.

By: Har Rai Khalsa

Har Rai Khalsa — Sat, 28 May 2011 05:40:00 +0000

Really like the end results!

By: Rex Larsen

Rex Larsen — Sat, 28 May 2011 03:56:00 +0000

Video was hard to watch, I gave up.

By: Rex Larsen

Rex Larsen — Sat, 28 May 2011 03:56:00 +0000

Video was hard to watch, I gave up.

By: Rex Larsen

Rex Larsen — Sat, 28 May 2011 03:56:00 +0000

Video was hard to watch, I gave up.

By: Travis Tank

Travis Tank — Sat, 28 May 2011 00:57:00 +0000

no it wasnt a big deal, the octobank is pretty sturdy and held up well. I think the golf kart rig was my biggest issue.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:49:00 +0000

I’ve seen so many umbrellas collapse in wind, I’m wondering if that was a problem as Travis drove around.