Finally! Here is an example of a lighting setup I used with 3 studio lights on location. I am using Alien Bees for my lights with an Alien Bee’s Vagabond battery pack for portable power. I am use the CyberSync transmitter and receivers. These are Alien Bee 800s which are fairly powerful. But lately I have been craving more power so I can truly overpower the sun. Maybe White Lightings would be cool. But if I had the money for it I might someday get the Elinchrom Quadra RX.

But for now this set up works pretty well. I was able to get about 150 shots with 3 lights on one battery before the battery started to show signs of weakness. That is when I came in and used just one Alien Bee on the battery and I used 2 Nikon SB-800s attached to the CyberSync receivers. And that worked pretty well for the rest of the shoot. So in about 3 hours we got about 250+ shots. Not to bad. It is expensive? Not as expensive as a ProPhoto or all Elinchrom setup. So it will work for most people who want to have some power.

Alien Bees Studio Lighting on the Utah Salt Flats

I am using a boom arm with a c-stand so I can get light in front of and above the subject without the light poll being in my way. I am also using ankle weights to weight down the light stands so they don’t fall over. I don’t want to lose a flash head to wind.