That funky ringflash

During a tradeshow it’s always hard to come up with stuff that’s interesting.
Of course you can talk and talk and talk…….. and talk some more, but the real fun is of course when you shoot and people can see what light can do in combination with a little bit of creativity. You have to realize that during the Professional Imaging I have to work on a booth the size of a large bathroom, let’s say 2.75mtrs x 3 mtrs (using the passway) and in that space I need to place my lights, my laptop, the monitor for tethering, the model and myself…. a bit crowdy so to say.
However somehow some creative stuff always surfaces and this time I decided at a point it would be cool to play a bit with an Elinchrom Quadra ring flash, in some shots it’s the only light source, in some it’s been helped by an Elinchrom maxi light with grid.

The thing I love with light is that it can be used in numerous ways, there really is hardly no limit to the way you can manipulate it, or use it. Still I hear a lot of photographers being afraid to for example point a light source straight into the camera, the only thing I can say…. “try it” maybe you’ll like it, maybe not… if not delete the image, if you do you can say WOW I got a really cool shot.

During the show Nadine changed into several outfits. I think this also is a great asset of a good model, as we as photographers play with light a good model will play with her looks, looking different every time over and over again.

Can you spot the 80MP files 🙂 ?

And although I could have filled 3 full days with Nadine, we also had 3 other models on the booth and here are the shots I did with Linda and Jolinde using the ringflash.

Many thanks to Linda from BeautyFX for the amazing makeup (and very hard work).