Double Soft-box

I saw an Adorama video last week about using two soft-boxes on one light stand for doing actor head shots. So, I manually had to try and build my own. I started with a heavy duty 9-foot light stand and used some clamps, umbrella adaptor's and half inch hard copper tubing. I put a 24” soft-box on the top and a 20” soft-box on the bottom. Each soft-box was equipped with a Godox V860-II speed light.

I did some sample shoots with my practice mannequin. I will try to do more test shots next week with a real model.

MagMod Portrait

A friend of mine just last week picked up some MagMod gear. She wants to use it to do some corporate portraits next week and ask me if I would put together a lighting diagram for her. I have some MagMod gear but use it mostly for event photography. In my opinion MagMod modifiers produce light that is too hard for a corporate portrait. But, here is what I came up with. I used a MagSphere on a Godox V860-II speedlite as the main light, a 20” by 30” piece of white foam core as fill light and a MagGrid on another Godox V860-II speedlite on the background. the model is my lovely wife.