Westcott Apollo 28" Softbox, inclination issue

Having just bought my first Westcott Apollo 28" Strobist Softbox i quickly came in touch with the inclination issue, because the light stand goes into the softbox and the opening in the underside of the softbox is limited you need to pull a trick out of your hat to get more inclination than 5 or 10 degrees. 1 problem always has more than 1 solution so if you search the net you will find others, it's up to you to choose the one that fit's you best. Buying or constructing a boom stand was not a solution for me, i do not like to use this on location because of the space it uses and the eventual instability.

For this solution i used 2 Swivel adapters and 1 piece of steel tube (diameter 16mm and length 300mm), I hope following pictures will make clear how this construction works and is assembled.

Almost every angle is possible now!

Sorry for motion blur :-$

Even with the poor position there still is a good spread of light in the softbox, no hotspot

Laura & Connie

Once again a last-minute improvisation shoot, normally we would have done this shoot outside, we were looking for photos where the sun would provide a lot of lensflare, but for this you need... sun, and that was one of the missing items... . luckily Laura remembered a big location near Zolder where she knew we could do the shoot inside!

model was Laura Theys, MUA Connie Van Noten, assistant and co-photographer Bart Henseler aka Bitbanger!


Checking the light wit Mr Bitbanger himself... (strobist info, rimlight from Sb-900 @ 1/8th power, zoomed 200mm, main = white umbrella Canon speedlight @ 1/4th power, triggered with Skyports

Just for fun shot, 100% ambient 50mm (on fx) f:1,8 1/320th ISO200

This is a 100% strobist shoot with 1 or 2 white shoot trough umbrella's or 1 silver relfective umbrella and 1 hair light provided by the SB-900 zoomed at 200mm (no need for a snoot, beam is extremely focused)

Dragging the shutter to use the colored light in the back provided by LED, main light by speedlight in reflective silver umbrella ISO 1600 - 1/20th - 200mm f:2,8

Blondes have more fun!

I guess life is fun for this girl! She is a young model with an attitude and not afraid of the camera, she really loves to pose and you feel this as she needs little direction from the photographer

This was "strobist" or from time to time even a "one reflection panel" shoot ;-) a lot of highlights are blown but from what I've heard this is a trend in moder fashion photography so why not...

Kelsey

This was one of those "improvise now" shoots, normally we would have gone to a nice park in Tervuren to do something more "outdoors" but the weather went stormy to sunny and back to stormy every 20 minutes, Kelsey's mom found the trammuseum in Dilbeek, i phoned them and it was ok for them to shoot there, so this would become our setting for this shoot.

Mua and styling done by Katrien Thys, special skirt was made by Mandy Schelfhout, model is Kelsey!!

Just a big reflector

120 cm octabank left side + ambient as fill

120 cm octabank very frontal, little hair and shoulder light provided by natural light falling trough glass panels in the roof

Just a reflector :-)

Evy

Through our local photo-club we are contacted on a regular base to shoot some stuff for a popular airline company, for this project they would need some cover photos of there flight attendants, these are just 2 pictures that didn't make it into the publication ...

Photokina 1

As strobistworkshops.be we (Peter and myself) were invited to the photokina, this is a small fair for photography material organized by studio73 & fotorubens. We needed to stand out from the other participants so we decide to set-up a small strobist studio and have some girls to draw the attention.

In the back we put a Lastolite background lit by 2 speedlights to have it pure white, to light the girls we used the strobist beauty dish and a silver reflector (ISO 200 - f:5.6 - 1/125th)

Cindy and Julie, thank you girls! :-)

Pauline

Would you like to have a shoot with me? This is the question i got from this amazing young girl named Pauline and off course i said yes, she has a massive experience in posing for photographers, acting, catwalk, etc.. I guess one day she will be a famous person if she isn't already ...

She is a really nice, energetic and friendly person and that's what makes her great to work with and she called me "Mr Magic light" so she really made my day!

This first picture will illustrate an article about reflection screens in a few weeks

Silver reflection behind (magic sparkle on her arm) + zebra reflection front left + diffusion screen on the left side to soften the sunlight

Diffusion screen + 2 big white reflectors as soft main light