Thanks Janna..
I have never seen that.. I think it is a new item for profoto..
Has anybody here ever used one?
Thanks
Snook
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I haven't used that modifer, though do use the older profoto Frensel quite a bit.
The Frensel isn't quite as directional as an Arri 2k, though profoto now has what looks like an arri 2k with a strobe head mounted inside.
I do like the idea of this modifer though and will try it soon.
One thing to keep in mind when shooting for dark, dark shadows is what camera, file, processing you are using, as some files just don't do well with black or very dark shadows, as chroma noise comes in (though can be desaturated), or with the Canon's (at least the mk 2) the noise breaks into clumps rather than a constant pattern. I find the clumps the hardest to correct.
Early on with the P30 and p30+ I was told to expose darker, not the standard digital thought of to the right and I've seen where that works best. Now how that compares to other digital backs I don't remember, though all of the DB companies are changing and improving thier software so now they might be all the same, or not, once again, you have to test to know for sure.
Regardless of camera or digital, or film, one think I would caution about is too much negative fill, just to produce shadows. If you go too deep, or the falloff is too quick you will get banding, usually on people (a red or pink banding) in the transitional areas and once again, some cameras do this more than others and some lenses bite harder and the fall off is quicker, so you have to test.
I find if I leave a little bit of bottom room and not go for the hard look right out of the first capture, it's easier in post to just define the shadows and add them as a layer that can be adjusted.
Not that you don't have to be very close to your look out of the camera, not just 100% exact.
I should once again add how processing software is changing this. The image above was processed in 3.76 and also earlier versions of lightroom and I had a hell of a time getting skin color in lightroom as it went magenta to orange and was not consistent, but in 3.76 it was difficult to adjust the ratios and the skin would go from color to grey.
Now in the newer versions of lightroom it is a little easier and in C1 V4 the controls are much more exact and the skin color casting is gone, so software improves our ability to use all of these radical lighting schemes we previously did with film.
JR
