How to get this soft, golden spotlight on model?

Speculating - it looks like the main light was beamed into a gold reflector and then flagged heavily to just effect the portion of the model's face. Plus, some background fills.
 
DLD said:
Speculating - it looks like the main light was beamed into a gold reflector and then flagged heavily to just effect the portion of the model's face. Plus, some background fills.
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Nah, I dont think so. They creator of the image already told me its a gelled flashlight, plus theres 3 spots so 3 gold reflectors would be very incovenient to pull off
 
The inefficient simple focusing mechanisms of the flashlights give the hard-but-soft look where each light hits the model. Spotting in a fresnel light would work similarly. A fresnel at full flood will make hard, crisp shadows but when spotted those shadows become less defined.
 
For more controlled lighting, Mitch hit it. Nothing beats a fresnel for a hard light with soft edges and shadows. A light frost gel along with color of choice will soften shadows a bit without losing the edge. Haven't had a chance to try shooting with one or more, but these high output focusable Cree LED flashlights, again with color gels and maybe a bit of frost to even out the beam could do something similar. Just wonder about color spikes with those.
 
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Mitch Gross said:
The inefficient simple focusing mechanisms of the flashlights give the hard-but-soft look where each light hits the model. Spotting in a fresnel light would work similarly. A fresnel at full flood will make hard, crisp shadows but when spotted those shadows become less defined.
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Razz16mm said:
For more controlled lighting, Mitch hit it. Nothing beats a fresnel for a hard light with soft edges and shadows. A light frost gel along with color of choice will soften shadows a bit without losing the edge. Haven't had a chance to try shooting with one or more, but these high output focusable Cree LED flashlights, again with color gels and maybe a bit of frost to even out the beam could do something similar. Just wonder about color spikes with those.
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How is that possible that a Fresnel is hard light yet has soft shadows? Never understood that but its very interesting to me. Any way to make a flash strobe look like a spotted fresnel?

Anyways im looking into flashlights on Amazon but dont know what to buy for my exposure. I shoot Portra 400, f/2.8 usually and want a minimum shutter speed of 1/60th. Anyone know how many lumens is needed for that? I guess id have to buy 2 to have one provide shadow fill
 
moodlover said:
How is that possible that a Fresnel is hard light yet has soft shadows? Never understood that but its very interesting to me. Any way to make a flash strobe look like a spotted fresnel?
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It's hard because the light is emanating from a relatively small area (the lens of the light) rather than a large area such as a bounce card or diffusion frame. It's soft because the lensing of the Fresnel glass means that the light rays are not travelling perfectly parallel.

What to make a strobe look like a Fresnel? Put a Fresnel lens in front of a strobe emitter source.
 
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