You make it just too easy! Besides producing quality to die for, you provide every link to every piece of equipment that helped produce that result. Bravo sir!
Thank you for sharing and being yourself!, I appreciate you mentioning other brands to use that work just as well and introducing those pistol grips. Soooo Coool.
This is an amazing setup and walk through. What we all dream of being able to do. I had two questions. First, If you have power, why are you using battery powered monolights? Do you find a benefit to not having cords vs the battery management? Second, do you find yourself in situations where you have no power and absolutely must use battery powered lights? If so, where would that be? Ok, technically 4 questions but two main with followups. I ask because building out this kit with corded lights is about 1/5th the cost of battery powered. But, if you have no power, then you don't have a kit at all. Thanks for any and all info. Loving this channel!
James you are awesome! I have taken some of the ideas you present and have convinced my wife to use in her photography. Your biggest contribution to her setup is the boom. I picked one up for her and she was very hesitant but after the first shoot out in the field with it, she loves it!! Anytime she has space for it now she will use it. Thanks for the tips and content. Look forward to the next one.
It must have taken forever to make all the links in the description. I appreciate it. I originally watched on a Roku and came to my laptop browser to figure out what boom you used. Very helpful.
Excellent video once again, this is exactly the content I love to see from you. Seeing the players having fun and interacting with the camera really brings across your point and the great atmosphere of this shooting. Looking forward to the next videos!
Really awesome set up and bts! I use the Godox ad400 and love them! Hope I can get my hands on one of those prolight mods soon! Thank you for the content James!
Great content as always, looking forward to the Godox video. As a someone who is just a dad that enjoys photographing my kids and their team mates I just can’t justify the money for Profoto. Up to this point I have been getting by on portraits with a couple of SB800s but this year with my son starting high school I am looking to step up my game with some more creating lighting and I need to get something with more power to balance out daylight.
Hey James, been watching your videos and work for some time now and just love what you achieve. Can you tell me something with this lighting set up, with so many lights (barr your fill flash ( I think you inferred it fired through IR not a radio freq), how do you sync all the lights with the Godox remote? Do you bank all your AD400s (the ones giving the spotlight effects) on one channel and then the outer rim lights on another, the key light on another etc. My remote only goes from A-E which gives obviously 5 channels to use. I may have just answered my own question, but seeking some clarification. Thanks in advance, Mike from New Zealand....yes, you are watched down under👍
Fantastic setup James. Question - is the Wescott black background really black? (i.e. how much work is it in post bringing it to true black?) we have been trying all sorts of black fabrics and there are huge differences between brands and materials (we might do a video about this at some point).
I'm not having to work hard at all for it to be true black. Of course distance from lights and other factors contribute. My main Pro is that it is wrinkle free and semi-stretchable.
@@QuantzPhoto Distance from the light source is always a key to getting true black - even in our studio which is very big we almost always get spill. Is the fabric you used for the first side (the Profoto side) wide enough? to me, it looked a little too restricting, especially for athletes who you ask to move a lot. Don't they have a wider background?
Thank you so much for making these videos! I've learned so much from your content. I was wondering if there was any reason you don't use a green screen? I started doing all the sports photos for the local high school and that includes some graphics and banners and thought it might be easier to use a green screen for those types of things. Thank you!
Hey Hannah, I've never used a "green screen" since you can extract people out of pretty much any neutral color(white, grey, black) backdrop and green can cast a color that will need to be corrected.
Where can I order a backdrop stand that goes high like that. I think mines is only 7” and it’s not durable. I shoot a lot of HS teams, as well as the Reese Senior Bowl
They are all linked on the prolightmods.com website on the "suggested softboxes" page. Also Westcott has boxes that fit every Mod on their website as well!
You make it just too easy! Besides producing quality to die for, you provide every link to every piece of equipment that helped produce that result. Bravo sir!
Thank you, thank you!
there's ton of knowledge in this single video related to sports photography commercial shoot
These guys were right!! These images are like no others.. Phenomenal work.
Thanks Dave!
Thank you for sharing and being yourself!, I appreciate you mentioning other brands to use that work just as well and introducing those pistol grips. Soooo Coool.
Thanks David!
James great work as usual. Inspirational!!!
I appreciate that!
great work bro!
Appreciate it!
WHAT A SET UP!!!! WOOWZA!!!! (and John is my go to also!!!!!)
This is an amazing setup and walk through. What we all dream of being able to do. I had two questions. First, If you have power, why are you using battery powered monolights? Do you find a benefit to not having cords vs the battery management? Second, do you find yourself in situations where you have no power and absolutely must use battery powered lights? If so, where would that be? Ok, technically 4 questions but two main with followups. I ask because building out this kit with corded lights is about 1/5th the cost of battery powered. But, if you have no power, then you don't have a kit at all. Thanks for any and all info. Loving this channel!
Awesome, thanks for sharing,
14 lights...EPIC!!!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
James you are awesome! I have taken some of the ideas you present and have convinced my wife to use in her photography. Your biggest contribution to her setup is the boom. I picked one up for her and she was very hesitant but after the first shoot out in the field with it, she loves it!! Anytime she has space for it now she will use it. Thanks for the tips and content. Look forward to the next one.
#BoomLife for the win!!
It must have taken forever to make all the links in the description. I appreciate it. I originally watched on a Roku and came to my laptop browser to figure out what boom you used. Very helpful.
Thanks Damon!
Amazing setup. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Terry! Happy to share!
Awesome!
Excellent video once again, this is exactly the content I love to see from you. Seeing the players having fun and interacting with the camera really brings across your point and the great atmosphere of this shooting. Looking forward to the next videos!
Thanks Nils!
Just amazing work. As always, thank you for sharing! My favorite TY channel!
Wow, thanks Dan!
I just absolutely love everything you do ..!!! I always look forward to your videos!!
Thanks Tammi!
Really awesome set up and bts! I use the Godox ad400 and love them! Hope I can get my hands on one of those prolight mods soon! Thank you for the content James!
You're welcome!!
Boom arm is 🔥
BoomLife!
Very nice! Awesome work and set up, James!
Thanks, Tim!
I am so blown away by this. I photograph high school rodeo and want to get a smaller set up for finals in May
That sounds pretty cool!
@@QuantzPhoto thank you for the inspiration
Awesome as always! ps...Chucky Doll??? I think you could have added more lights....:) Where are those overheads?!!!! haha
Ha, we had guys bringing all kinds of stuff - sledgehammers, chains, guitars, pit bulls, etc.! Yeah I need two more booms for overheads! 🙄
Nice vision and amazing setup.
Thanks Chuck!
Real good video and damn awsome lights setup. Using 3 ad300 godox my self and I like them. Cheers 🙂✌️
Thanks Daniel!
Great content as always, looking forward to the Godox video. As a someone who is just a dad that enjoys photographing my kids and their team mates I just can’t justify the money for Profoto. Up to this point I have been getting by on portraits with a couple of SB800s but this year with my son starting high school I am looking to step up my game with some more creating lighting and I need to get something with more power to balance out daylight.
It just dropped!
@@QuantzPhoto thank you
Hey James, been watching your videos and work for some time now and just love what you achieve. Can you tell me something with this lighting set up, with so many lights (barr your fill flash ( I think you inferred it fired through IR not a radio freq), how do you sync all the lights with the Godox remote? Do you bank all your AD400s (the ones giving the spotlight effects) on one channel and then the outer rim lights on another, the key light on another etc. My remote only goes from A-E which gives obviously 5 channels to use. I may have just answered my own question, but seeking some clarification. Thanks in advance, Mike from New Zealand....yes, you are watched down under👍
I just set them in groups and combine the lights that are using the same power like all the ones in the Pro Light Mods so it’s not too crazy!
Great video! What camera body are you using? The images are so crisp. Thanks!
Canon R5. I'm pretty sure I show it in the video a few times! 👀🤣
You did. I realized that after I sent the question
Fantastic setup James. Question - is the Wescott black background really black? (i.e. how much work is it in post bringing it to true black?) we have been trying all sorts of black fabrics and there are huge differences between brands and materials (we might do a video about this at some point).
I'm not having to work hard at all for it to be true black. Of course distance from lights and other factors contribute. My main Pro is that it is wrinkle free and semi-stretchable.
@@QuantzPhoto Distance from the light source is always a key to getting true black - even in our studio which is very big we almost always get spill. Is the fabric you used for the first side (the Profoto side) wide enough? to me, it looked a little too restricting, especially for athletes who you ask to move a lot. Don't they have a wider background?
Man…you would have to rob a bank to afford all that! 😂
💥💥 I think you mean “you” would… 🤣
💰💰😎
Thank you so much for making these videos! I've learned so much from your content. I was wondering if there was any reason you don't use a green screen? I started doing all the sports photos for the local high school and that includes some graphics and banners and thought it might be easier to use a green screen for those types of things. Thank you!
Hey Hannah, I've never used a "green screen" since you can extract people out of pretty much any neutral color(white, grey, black) backdrop and green can cast a color that will need to be corrected.
@@QuantzPhoto oh ok that manes sense! I have seen others use a green screen, but wasn’t sure if it made things any easier or not. Thank you!
You mentioned that you were there for 5 days. Is this how long it took you to shoot the team?
We take a week to work everyone through so we aren't rushed.
👍👍👍👍👍
James - Where did you get the black curtains in from of the softboxes that had the circle cutouts to make the softboxes look like stadium lights?
ProLightMods.com check them out!
Where can I order a backdrop stand that goes high like that. I think mines is only 7” and it’s not durable.
I shoot a lot of HS teams, as well as the Reese Senior Bowl
Hey Jack, B&H has several on their website.
Would the Godox AD300 work for the ProLightMods? Thinking on keeping cost down and travel size.
It would depend on your camera settings at the end of the day. I haven't used the 300 personally.
Hi Sir! Can you tell me what are these godox sofbox? I don't know which ones choose for the 4x3, 3x3, 1x4 thank you
They are all linked on the prolightmods.com website on the "suggested softboxes" page. Also Westcott has boxes that fit every Mod on their website as well!
Where did you get the light modifiers that simulate stadium lights?
www.prolightmods.com
Question brother. What power were your strobes set on along with camera settings?
Check out his latest video. 1/16 power (50%) because he shoots 8 frames a second. 🔥
What size are the godox softbox I have the promods 3x3????
There’s a full list of recommended boxes with links on the ProLightMods.com website!
question on the fog machine is it wired or wireless remote?
Wireless for the win! Linked below
@@QuantzPhoto Thank YOU!