Great video and results.
What I find strange is the overwhelming use of bare bulb with the B1 as that is how I also liked to use mine when I had them. I know a B1 has much more power than a speedlight which helps a lot in bright sunny conditions but it makes me wonder as a lot of these great shots were captured bare or into a brolly what the diffetence would have been if they had just used a speedlight? On a couple of shots they did use a beauty dish but at those distances from the subject what was the point other than to get one in the video because they are cool?
Just some random thoughts!?
Good random thoughts, and some debatable ones IMO.
Interestingly, I was breaking in a new lighting assistant at this past Saturday's wedding shoot, and the same questions/observations came regarding strobes verses speed-lights. I showed him that Marcus video.
If you look closely at the video, the use of various modifiers is quite apparently adding to the quality of light not just quantity.
(However, quantity is not to be overlooked as a B1 set to 1/4 power would require that a speed-light put out near full power, and you sure wouldn't be shooting as fast as Marcus was even if a Canon or Nikon speed-light thermal breaker did shut you down for 10 to 15 minutes … been there, done that).
The mobile shots with the two umbrella XLs shows a silver one and a diffused one which is obvious in the end result. Mods that big would swallow a speed light's energy and take seconds to recycle so you'd never be shooting that fast to catch that special expression.
In one shot the beauty dish was used in conjunction with a larger Octa key and the assistant was holding it to skim the subject while putting light on the background to separate the subject … which is also obvious in the final shot.
Ect. Etc, Etc.
So, while you
could use a speed-light in
some situations, you couldn't in most of them.
Brand endorsements aside, close observation shows that Marcus knows what he is doing.:thumbup:
- Marc