Approximating Fresnel Lighting With Monolights

[Asylum Steve]

Well, your standard fresnel light fixture is hot (generally tungsten), specular (not diffused), and focusable (not broad). Because it is a fairly specific effect light, you normally do not modify it further (except maybe to soften it if that's all you have to work with and you want a softer effect).

So, toss the Octabank (at least for this project, heh heh), use your flash straight with one of the silver reflectors, and rig a wide snoot (dark barrel extending from the flash head about 4-8 inches) out of black cine foil or heavy paper or bendable cardboard. You can also buy grids for the fronts of your relectors.

What you're trying to do is create a mild spot effect, not pin but wider yet contained so there is little side spill.

Hope that helps...

[draymorton]

Steve, that helps a lot. Thanks! What I'll probably end up doing is using the 11" with foil snoot and a gridspot. Which begs the question, "How tight?" PCB offers 10-40 degree models, of which I'm thinking I'll be able to choose two...

Btw, to give you a rough idea as to the light quality I'd be looking for...



The lighting therein seems very straight forward, but it has a very distinctive and identifiable character. Is there another lighting method you'd suggest to get something similar? And, though this is the lighting forum, what focal length would you recommend for something like this?