Elinchrom ELB500 TTL in the studio with Lulu Cole
Lulu Cole is one of those wonderful people who walks into a studio & immediately brightens your day!
This frame is from a session we shot late in 2018 at a studio in Sunny Sussex, near to where I live. I've worked with Elinchrom flash for many years and love how they just fit with the way I work. They're compact, lightweight, simple to use and backward compatible with other Elinchrom studio & battery flashes.
For this session I used two separate Elinchrom battery flashes, a single ELB500 TTL as my key light, modified with a *original 44cm Light Shaper with Tough Spun diffusion and the honeycomb grid in place. The rim light was a Ranger Quadra 400 with a **44 cm white beauty dish, white deflector & white shower cap front diffuser, so essentially a perfectly round soft box.
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| Legacy modifier on a modern battery flash |
The 44 cm Light Shaper creates light with deep shadows and a relatively short edge transition. It's similar in contrast to a beauty dish, with a straight edge which is useful when precise control is needs, such as when feathering the light. Here it's in use on a lightweight stand with my 16mm steel tube boom. With the small & lightweight flash heads of the ELB5000 TTL heavier light stands are not required unless larger & heavier modifier/shapers are used.
The Elinchrom ELSP-HS flash (Canon) controller receives signals from both my original Quadra battery pack & that of the ELB500 TTL, triggering both and allowing power control from a single point. If all flash battery packs are switched on the controller will search & find any units, current or legacy automatically. If not, there's a search facility at the top of the main menu.
* The standard ELB500 TTL heads require the Q mount to EL adaptor in order to use standard EL fit modifier/shapers.
** Turned off for this particular frame.
Elinchrom have reintroduced the 44 cm Square Reflector available from The Flash Centre in UK.
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Credits
- Model: Lulu Cole
- Lighting Equipment: Sunbounce, Elinchrom & more from our friends at The Flash Centre - I only recommend businesses whens I have direct experience of the products and people - when contacting The Flash Centre call Brian Collier at the Birmingham branch.
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