Category Archives: Lightware

Vase, Rods and a Dash of Color

  A simple set up showing how the light breaks work. I have talked in a past post about the frame with plastic cardboard sides … this was used to make the pattern on the set wall. (4′x8′) The rods are acrylic colors available from our local plastic supply with a small strobe powering through them...

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Modifiers for the Speed light … Did you think of these?

I just love hardware stores. What I have here a a square picture frame painted black that I use to mount different screens, scrims and odd materials that I find in the store. I have pictured different “bug” screens and a plastic square mesh that I found in the garden isle. They all have a...

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Mentor Series Lighting Workshop in San Antonio Texas

Mentor Series Workshops can be a great learning experience. If you are new or just a avid hobbyist of photography this can be a great way to see some of the world, meet some great people and get educated by some of the best photographers working today. This quick snap was taken on the San...

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I Protect My Dynalite Kit With A Lightware MF1217

Well now, all that power in one Lightware MF1217 (12″x 17″x8″). This is my road kit. It is small and then small and did I mention small? In addition to the Dynalite case, stands, gels, boxes, cables and background go in another Lightware bag. I use a MF2012 case for my speed lights, cameras and...

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Headshot with a Radiating Blue Background

We were recently on a job where the client wanted corporate head shots to have a particular feel. We found that using a clamp and twisting the black background gives a really interesting effect when you fire your strobe into it. The result as you can see is a blue radiating pattern. We experimented with...

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