Last week­end I played around with my West­cott Apollo JS 50″ Soft­box and Elinchrom Qua­tra at my liv­ing room stu­dio. It is a great com­bi­na­tion withe the really large soft­box designed for speed­lights but with the power of the Quadras.

First approach was as a sin­gle light from cam­era right to feather over the face. It pointed in from 90deg and was very close close to the face.

Sec­ond I placed the soft­box right behind cam­era to give it more a beauty light­ing look. The large 50″ soft­box cre­ates a real nice and soft light ad you can see me stand­ing in front if it in the catch lights in her eyes.

I rally like the 50″ West­cott with the indi­rect light­ing. The flash had is inside the box and point­ing into the boox that the light will be reflected ones first before it goes through the front dif­fuser. It is a great com­bi­na­tion for ‘on loca­tion’ shots. The only prob­lem could be the huge size in strong wind con­di­tions. So you need a strong assis­tant to get old of it ;-)

All pho­tos were shot with my Nikon D3 and my 105mm/f2.0 DC lens to limit the DOF.