Working with the Siros 400S on location combined with candles turned out superb. Our Siros is a powerful monolight. You are able to actually create whatever you want. Is it a very atmospheric image or an action photograph? Siros can do it all.
The theme of this tutorial was the 1920’s. The styling, the model and the overall atmosphere played a big role. It was a pleasure working with the hair and makeup artist Pablo Kümin and a beautiful model Ivana Luggen from Time Model Agency in Zurich.
For this photo shoot I used two Siros 400S and lots of candle light. It was all about catching the atmosphere.
Siros 400S is a powerful light but at the same time it gives you the freedom to work with low power, obviously in this case to not destroy the candle light.
LightingSetupOne Siros 400S was attached to a 60x60 softbox with a grid. Used just as a fill light. I used the grid to get the light more focused, the light shouldn’t spread too much and I wanted to set it precisely.
The second Siros 400S was used as a hair light, due to the models dark hair, attached onto our monolight was a basic reflector L40 combined with a very narrow honeycomb grid.
Working in a small space with windows casting unwanted sunlight and finding the right wall in the room as a backdrop made the shoot a challenge. We had to cover the castles windows to avoid unwanted light and reflections.
I worked with a power setting down to 2 which corresponds to 1.5 Joules of flash energy in a broncolor Siros 400S. The broncolor Siros 400S enabled a shooting which captured the existing atmosphere beautifully, thanks to the combination of high sensitivity, low power and slower shutter speed.
