Comments on: A controlled look at light shapers

By: HellCome To H.e.N.c.A Places » Follow Up: Choosing Big Lights

HellCome To H.e.N.c.A Places » Follow Up: Choosing Big Lights — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:23:41 +0000

[...] First, the quality of the light is just gorgeous. And on top of that, I can “zoom” them for a wide range of light shapes from the standard reflectors. (You can see much more detailed into of this, here.) [...]

By: Are they the same ?

Are they the same ? — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:07:19 +0000

The silver softlight and white softlight with diffuser look like the same picture on my screen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:16:25 +0000

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By: A controlled look at light shapers II – Magnum and Giant Reflector 180 | Profoto Blog

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:01:56 +0000

[...] again everyone! Thanks again for all the comments and suggestions regarding the last blog post. It is nice to hear that this information is useful to other photographers. The folks at Profoto [...]

By: Tony Armstrong

Tony Armstrong — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:00:24 +0000

Great demo!! Extremely useful in getting a visual representation of what the light shapers sampled, do.

One question. In some of the images, in the data at the bottom of the shots, there would be something like “1/125 @ f/8 +2″. Of course I know what the shutter speed and f-stop data is, but what is the “+2″ part. Can someone inform me? Is that the change in ratio from the light without the modifier to the light WITH the modifier?

Pls. inform me.

Otherwise, this was a fantastic idea, and hope to see it done more with other common Profoto light shapers.

By: comparison of light shaping tools « Profoto Blog

comparison of light shaping tools « Profoto Blog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:56:36 +0000

[...] comparison of light shaping tools http://blog.profoto-usa.com/?p=290 [...]

By: Brian MacDougall

Brian MacDougall — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:40:20 +0000

Very nice! A lot of work, but very detailed and comprehensive. Looking forward to more.

By: Stefan Tell

Stefan Tell — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:51:42 +0000

Great. And thanks. This is exactly what is missing from the product pages of most manufacturers of studio lights and modifiers on the net and in printed form.

Ok, you can get a feeling for what effect you can achieve if you look around on Flickr, but never this easy to compare.

Looking forward to a comparison of the rest of the Profoto light shaping tools :)

By: Murray Brockway

Murray Brockway — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:45:38 +0000

I tried out my collection of reflectors after I bought them with a D4 generator a couple of years ago. The widezoom reflector, I think (all in storage now), was the only one at the time that didn’t create a donut or hot spot like the the old zoom. It was sweet everywhere. Glad to see the new zoom is like that and happy to hear we won’t have to lug grid holders around with it.

I replaced the center on the beauty dish with a glass diffuser and my model ended up squinting in one eye for most of the shoot. Should have tried it out on myself first.

Same shoot I had a magnifying eyepiece on my Canon 5D and few of my outdoor shots (off tripod) where level. (Lined up the curve of magnifying view finder with an architectural element). The eyepiece had barrel distortion.

Can you say re-shoot or lost client?

By: byron

byron — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:26:14 +0000

great idea and execution!

By: robert

robert — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:05:42 +0000

it will be nice to see the different light effects on models :-)….soft with and without grid or honeycomb… bigger & smaller distance from model etc.

By: ken

ken — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:37:28 +0000

love the demonstration, well done, would love to see more in the future. keep up the good work.

By: John Andresen

John Andresen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:09:45 +0000

Thank you. This is very usefull and well made. :)

By: steven noreyko

steven noreyko — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:50:18 +0000

Awesome!

Great to see the side-by-side comparison between the new/old zoom reflectors and the softlight white/silver reflectors.