Inspire: Model Shoot with one Quantum QFlash

[Abel]

Here's a great video showing photo Andy Lesauvage from the UK photographing model Leilani Dowding.

The video is great to see how he works with a single Quantum QFlash as well as to get a bunch of great posing ideas.

He has some great work!




enjoy.

[Snarfy]

Cool behind-the-scenes video. She sets some great poses, and the photog was so well prepared on them. Great vid, amazing model.

[chrisfotos]

awesome.. thanks for sharing

[windrivermaiden]

OMG! she is sooooo perkie...I almost couldn't watch.

[Abel]

Im always trying to find good photo related videos especially those that incorporate some off camera flash portrait sessions..

No worries... I will post them here on CPF as I find them. I may need to come up with a good system of archiving them so that future members can find them easily... hmm lemme look into that.

[jnjphotography]

Great vid! Anyone know what diffuser he is using? I thought it was a Gary Fong lightsphere at first but seems to be a softbox of some sort unless he switched between the two.

[Abel]

He's actually using a Quantum Flash unit which has that bowl shaped modifier on the head of the flash. They typically are used with the flat white diffuser cap as shown in the photo below but in the case of the video is seems he is shooting with the diffuser off.

The flash and battery setup is about $1,100 or so. ouch.

[Snarfy]

And I almost choked when I read the price of the 580exII. Holy Crap.

[jnjphotography]

Very interesting. Thanks for the vid. We need more vids like this. LOL, I love studying the lighting setups. Once I have more free time, I can experiment. LOL, for the time being I am slowly building my arsenal.

[imported_jimmyD]

given the location, the shooter, it would seem, had access to A/C and still chose to go with a single, portable, battery-operated, source. that may say more about him, the limitations of his gear, his lack of an assistant (i didn't see one), time constraints, or other production issues rather than the quantum being his first choice for this shoot. or, maybe not.

[Killjoy]

Jimmy,
I know you have the gear, and you have the assistants, and you certainly have the talent (I've seen your work on other forums). With the kind of availability you spoke of (power, etc) how would you have done that shoot?
How do you do shoots on location? Or do you prefer to work in your studio?

Thanks,
Alan

[imported_timothybui]

Wow, I'm not gonna hold it in.. She's hot! Thanks for the video, the shows the possibilities I can try when I pick up my SB-800.

[Snarfy]

Originally Posted by timothybui

Wow, I'm not gonna hold it in.. She's hot! Thanks for the video, the shows the possibilities I can try when I pick up my SB-800.

When you... oh right, you don't have the built in pop-up CLS flash huh? Yeah you'll fall in love with the commander mode, lol.

[imported_JPPhotography]

That's an awesome video. It's great to see the model as well as the photographer interacting in a photoshoot. This reminds of similar (although simpler, more modest) setup that was done by Joe McNally using Nikon's CLS system. Video is called Speed of Light. I highly recommend the video if you have Nikon setup. In fact, I have several photoshoots in the next 2 weeks that i will be using the CLS system with an SB600 and SB800 on my D80. I'll post some of the photos once I've edited them.

Cheers,
JP

[Abel]

John... definitely get those uploaded when you're done... I'd love to take a look at them. Wireless flash always amazes me!