The owner of my London studio handed me a pack of goodies from Lumiquest and Lastolite yesterday to play with as he knows I do a lot of strobist work on location. It’s one of their sample sets and contains a couple of pop-up soft boxes, a pocket bouncer modifier and a snoot.
The flash batteries are charging as I type and I can’t wait to get out in the field to try them out and see what I can do with them.
First impressions are that the soft boxes, the Lumiquest Softbox and the Lastolite Micro Apollo light modifier will be ideal for a lot of the close up work I do where I don’t have the luxury of using the Westcott Apollo softbox, and a naked speedlite is way too hard to be flattering for many of my subjects.
The Lumiquest Promax Snoot is really cool and I have big ideas about what to do with a pencil thin beam of light. No idea if they’ll work or not though but I won’t know until I try. I like using grids on speedlites so it will be interesting to compare the results.
Not overly sure what to do with the Lumiquest Pocket Bouncer yet but I have a little project coming up in a couple of weeks where it might be just the right tool for the job.
Watch this space, I’ll be reviewing each item in a separate post shortly. Need to get some images first though.
