I was lucky to learn photography in a studio as a child, i had basic equipment two lights and a backdrop, none the less it was a studio.
However always shooting in a studio meant i always yearned to get out and shoot. Now this isn't to say i don't enjoy shooting in a studio i love the control a studio brings and for certain things it just makes sense photographing them in a studio.
Here is a day i broke free from the studio and took my lights outside into the wilderness, who am i kidding it's just a local park but its amazing what you can do with a clear patch of land and a few props.
This was the day i also got my hands on a pair of Profoto B1s and in all the excitement i forgot my modifiers at home. Luckily the Profoto's came with a shoot through umbrella which was a nightmare with the wind. Pro tip always carry duct tape.
I'm not usually a fan of using umbrellas mainly because the spread is so huge on them and i like working with little pockets of light rather than blasting light in every direction. In this case it worked really well the umbrella created a very soft light on the model and a bare bulb flash at the back separated the model from the background. I had the light at the back high up so it would bounce of the tops of all the props also otherwise they would of just all blended into into a huge mush.
