Staying at a three star hotel is not the best location you can get, but what the heck—the shoot was all about testing a new lighting gear and having some beers with friends.
The biggest problem with the rig was getting the light stand to not tilt from side to side in the backpack. When doing you could not move around without being sh*t scared of dropping the beauty dish or getting the light in the right directions. Some assistant from my friends and some silver tape took care of the problem, but I will modify the newly bought backpack so the small light stand I used will not be able to move at all sideways.
The second problem was moving around. You feel like an unbalanced ghost buster moving around with that thing on your back and over your head, and you can easily bump into signs and doorways.
But as soon as you are outside it works ! Even so, I found it better to be alone and not using any B light, since having having to instruct an assistant was cumbersome. With the Ghostbuster gear you have enough to do just handle your own dish and camera at the same time. The light was good though, but I guess two assistants is better for a main-n-B-light shoot.
But I found the way of using it once we started playing around with it in front of the hotel. Since the crowd filling Elmia Motor Show was this weekend, we had a bit of an audience since many of the stay at the same hotel.
Just to give the audience the show they came for a started shouting instructions "as seen on TV" to Angelica and Jenny:
-Work the camera, bitch!
-Yeah! You look sexy! More like that!
-Show me your f*cking tits!
and similar could be heard miles away... :-)
Well, here is the unedited shots from the beer session. More pictures on Facebook.
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