Profoto asked us earlier this year if we wanted to be part of a new secret launch of some new products, which we instantly said yes to. The products were the new softboxes which were designed to fit Profoto’s larger lights. In our case, those are the B10X series lights that we use in the studio all the time. But now with the new 1×4 grid, 2×3 and the 3-foot octa, the modifiers open up instantly and make using the larger lights so much faster and easier outside the studio as well. When we travel, we’ve been bringing the smaller A2s because of their Clic modifiers. But now with the updated softboxes, it’s going to be a much easier decision to bring our B10X, and B10X Plus if we know we’re going to be working in brighter light, or need to be able to plug the lights in for constant use.
For the assignment, we asked Cameron and Hayden, who just got engaged over New Year’s Eve, if they wanted to have an engagement session with us in downtown Charleston. And because we wanted to really push the lights to the limits, we started much earlier in the day than we normally would. We wanted to be able to overpower the sun, while still photographing in the same way that we always do. Along with us (Matt included) our buddies Maggie and Dorian of Motion Filmworks joined us to record the session for a promotional video. We’ve known Maggie and Dorian for over a decade now, and we also got to work with them when we did the Fujfilm launch of the 18 1.4 mm lens. In that case, we got on their boat and went to locations we’ve never been. For Profoto, we went downtown to where we photograph all the time. That gave us challenges to not repeat ourselves, while also seeing what we could do in the high-afternoon soon, which we almost never photograph in. Cameron and Hayden were champs, and rolled with everything we asked them to do. And the new Softboxes? They are amazing and give us so much more opportunity to do what we love, with light that we love.
You can view the video below of everything we did. And visit our Share the Light pages to see how each photo was taken.
