4/29/2024 0 Comments Little sandra model sets![]() ![]() I'm just turning these on, I'm not gonna blind you guys, so they're gonna face this way. ![]() It's gonna have a model light, and it's gonna have the strobe light. So model light, every strobe unit out there will have a set of two lights to control. And there's two sets of controls that you need to be aware of, and you need to know how to use when you are getting into studio lighting. So really, the only thing you need to know is that even though there's lots of different brands that you can get into with strobes, they all basically work the same. I used an Alien Bee, I can bring this out here, for years and years and years, and it worked just fine. I love these, but they are a little more on the spendy side of things. They're powered on a battery pack and they work great. (laughs) Like isn't that the most adorable strobe unit you've ever seen? They're really light, they're easy to use, and for me, because I'm, the space that I'm working in, they're just enough power for me, I don't have to worry about bringing in anything really huge. So I love using, I now use these little Profoto B2s in my studio, which are these little cutie pies, and I love 'em because they're super tiny. So just like with triggers, just like with anything actually when it comes to strobe units, there are a ton of different choices, and again, ranging in price all over the place. Okay, next piece of equipment we need is your strobe units. Alright? Now I'm gonna go into detail and show you exactly how I meter, I just wanted to show you how you set your meter up to get ready to be using your strobes. When you are setting up your meter to work with studio lighting however, you need to set your ISO and your shutter speed, because remember shutter speed is really important when working with strobes, different than when working with studio lighting, and you wanna be, we wanna make sure that you're at that sync speed. So normally when you're shooting with natural light or ambient light and you're setting a light meter, you set your ISO and your aperture, that's what I always do, and then that shutter speed falls where it wants to. And then like I said, when you're setting your light meter, that's a little different as well. I just keep it in the little lightning bolt, and it makes it, it's really easy. If your Sekonic has a lightning bolt with the C, then that means you could plug in a sync cable here, I have a really long one in my studio that hooks into my strobe, and I can meter that way, and I think the newer ones have an air remote option as well, that you can do it wireless. So you can test your strobe, and then it will wait for that and then it will fire. So lightning bolt, just plain lightning bolt is what I'm in all the time, and what happens when you're in that mode is when you press your button to take a reading, the meter will pause until you fire your strobe. So it's been with me for a while, so it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the newer ones do, the newer Sekonics have different, much more variety in what kind of a flash mode you can be. So my Sekonic is like really old, I think I got this in 2002. ![]() So sunshine mode is for ambient light, and the little lightning bolt icons are for flash modes. So on the Sekonics, that looks like a little lightning bolt. What you need to know is that if you're gonna work with the light meter with studio lighting, you wanna make sure that your meter can be put into a flash mode. I use the Sekonics, but all the basics are the same. So every light meter is slightly different. How To Set Up A Light Meter & Strobe UnitĪlright, so the next piece of equipment you absolutely need, and you should all already have one if you're film shooters, but you need a light meter, right? So as a film photographer, I always say, your light meter is the most important piece of equipment you can have outside of your camera. ![]()
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