I just finished up my weekend workshop yesterday, and I'm trying to catch up, but I've had these boxes sitting in my living room now for DAYS, UNOPENED, and I just had to crack the seal!!!
My Alien Bees arrived last week, and I've been wanting to open them up every day since then!
Today I finally did (even though I probably should work on email a bit more... that can wait!!!)

I went out to the trampoline where all the kids were playing.
I ran one 1600 light off an extension cord from the house,
used the sync cable that came with the light,
set my ISO to 100,
manual mode, ss: 1/250th, and I varied the aperture and the light's power till I was happy with the sky & the skin tones (yes, chimping galore)

These are screenshots straight out of Bridge:









The kids took turns holding the light & pointing it at the jumper. I was outside the net, holding my camera (5D w/24-70) inside the net, pointing it at the jumper blind & just shooting away.

Here's a shot I did w/o the light, just to see what it looked like without:


This stuff is fun!!!
I don't want to lug all this stuff to the beach, but I will be playing more with this & soccer & action stuff! And some cool portraits, too!

~Carey

I Alien Bees! Looks like you had a lot of fun w/ them!

I LOOOOOOOOVE how ghetto you are! It makes me giddy! That sounds exactly like the sort of thing that I do to my poor ABs!!

cool!
I'm so new to ABs, I didn't even know that was ghetto, but I'll take it!
I got their new VagabondII power supply battery thing, but it's not charged yet, and honestly, the extention cord was easier for this.
It was me, one light, the camera, a BUNCH of cords, and a BUNCH of kids,
so that was about all I could handle.
Now I can see how the tweaking can be endless... get a little fill here on the other side with another light... get a hair light in the back for some rim light.... just playing with ONE this way was a fun way to start!

These crack me up

You're going to rock the bees!

Cool Carey. I'm looking at a set of these two. Or some ProFoto's that Samy's has on a killer sale, I keep going back and forth. I love that look though. Very cool. Thanks for the peer pressure.

Those are so cool!!! How fun.

"Carey's got a new toy
some Alien Bees - OH BOY
Carey's got a new toy
she's gonna have some fun!"

.............yep. It's in my head now. *sheesh*

Watch out people - when this lady sets her mind to something, there's no stopping her!!! And the best part? WE get to see all of her wonderful shots!!!



Roxanne

haha uhhh if youre going to spend the money dude, get the profotos. they are a TOTAL step up from alien bees, some of the finest strobes ever made, like, the type that every photographer dreams of having some day.

looks like you had fun carey, im sure you're gonna enjoy your bees!