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What’s your recommendation for good reliable studio/portable lighting?

Q: I want to get into commercial (stock) photography. need a good reliable studio/portable lighting. What is your recommendation? I’m leaning to Bowens gemini 500 pro. Profoto D1 better and worth the cost? — Shervin A: There are a lot of great choices on the market. I’ve used Profoto for years mostly because of their […]

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Cool Gear: Profoto ProDaylight HMI is BACK!

Profoto is finally bringing HMIs back into their line-up with the announcement of the ProDaylight 400 Air and ProDaylight 800 Air, Metal Halide based continuous light sources, dedicated to work with most of the existing line of Profoto’s Light Shaping Tools. The powerful Metal Halide lamp provides daylight or color temperature, ideal for photo and video shoots.

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X-Rite Video Salute to Burlesque

HUGE THANKS to Ab “Scorsese” Sesay of the MAC Group for this fantastic behind-the-scenes look of my shoot with Burlesque dancers Angie Pontani, Amber Ray, Gal Friday, Jo Boobs Weldon, Peekaboo Pointe, Darlinda Just Darlinda and Bunny Love the latest additions to my Legends of Burlesque project which dates back to a 1993 shoot of

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Profoto AcuteB 600

When photographing portraits on location, we use lots of Profoto 7B 1200 w/s battery strobe packs. At times we rent as many as ten of them on our bigger shoots. It’s a great pack and practically bulletproof, the only drawback is that one of the thing that makes it bulletproof is that it’s powered by

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