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I have a new toy 
It's a Lencarta 150cm folding octa box. I used it seriously for the first time yesterday and thought I'd post a few thoughts along with some pictures.
This isn't a review - just some nice stuff to look at.
First off, the octa box is huge. Like really big. 150 cm doesn't sound that much until you realise that's wide as well as tall. You'd have to be really stupid to try to use one of these on your own on location. Which is of course exactly what I did.
Although it's very big and bulky, I was extremely glad I had the folding version. Set up it's hard to fit through a doorway and it was nice to be able to collapse it quickly and get it from one room to another.
All pictures are straight out of camera (for lighting shots there's really no point showing edited pics). I didn't use the "circular mask" or the grid. i did use the double diffusers for all shots. In all cases (apart from the marked one) the octa is the sole light source in the picture.
No comments on the models please. These are totally unretouched images of amateur models and I'd never normally present them like this. Tell me my light sucks if you like but don't critique them.
First up- Magic Max
A 150 is plenty to light a full length subject. You can see a small amount of light coming in the window but it's not really contributing to the exposure - just a bit of colour in the b/g.
Red shoes
This is really just to show the size of the octa and the spread of the beam. It's feathered up and back - note the shadow lines on the floor and ceiling.
[Extra light here from the right on the shoes.]
Feathers.
Often I'd use a clamshell approach for embellishments like this. Or a beauty dish and triflector. This is just the octa shoved in close to make sure the shadow under her chin is filled.
Jewels
More embellishments and again I'm tilting the box up and back so that it lights both the model and the background. It's feathered to her so she gets more light and then the spare light hits the wall and ceiling.
Coco
(Yes this is SOOC - I use a custom B&W profile in the camera to shoot straight to B&W)
A little bit blown on the earring and slightly softer than I'd like but I can fix both of those in post. In fact I probably won't use this shot at all - there are a couple shot in colour that I much prefer but if I converted them to B&W it would be cheating
Tough carrying a big octa around. But not as tough as it would have been carrying 2 lights or using a reflector
It's a Lencarta 150cm folding octa box. I used it seriously for the first time yesterday and thought I'd post a few thoughts along with some pictures.This isn't a review - just some nice stuff to look at.
First off, the octa box is huge. Like really big. 150 cm doesn't sound that much until you realise that's wide as well as tall. You'd have to be really stupid to try to use one of these on your own on location. Which is of course exactly what I did.
Although it's very big and bulky, I was extremely glad I had the folding version. Set up it's hard to fit through a doorway and it was nice to be able to collapse it quickly and get it from one room to another.
All pictures are straight out of camera (for lighting shots there's really no point showing edited pics). I didn't use the "circular mask" or the grid. i did use the double diffusers for all shots. In all cases (apart from the marked one) the octa is the sole light source in the picture.
No comments on the models please. These are totally unretouched images of amateur models and I'd never normally present them like this. Tell me my light sucks if you like but don't critique them.
First up- Magic Max
A 150 is plenty to light a full length subject. You can see a small amount of light coming in the window but it's not really contributing to the exposure - just a bit of colour in the b/g.
Red shoes
This is really just to show the size of the octa and the spread of the beam. It's feathered up and back - note the shadow lines on the floor and ceiling.
[Extra light here from the right on the shoes.]
Feathers.
Often I'd use a clamshell approach for embellishments like this. Or a beauty dish and triflector. This is just the octa shoved in close to make sure the shadow under her chin is filled.
Jewels
More embellishments and again I'm tilting the box up and back so that it lights both the model and the background. It's feathered to her so she gets more light and then the spare light hits the wall and ceiling.
Coco
(Yes this is SOOC - I use a custom B&W profile in the camera to shoot straight to B&W)
A little bit blown on the earring and slightly softer than I'd like but I can fix both of those in post. In fact I probably won't use this shot at all - there are a couple shot in colour that I much prefer but if I converted them to B&W it would be cheating
Tough carrying a big octa around. But not as tough as it would have been carrying 2 lights or using a reflector
