waiting for my light stand.But I will problably come here just to get information instead of giving because I am a really NEWBIE in the SRL world.Hope some more experienced come here to give some good hints! --
the only thing I don't have is the 358. but I do have the 608 and everything
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That's exactly my setup. No problems at all with metering. As always, be careful to avoid burning out highlights.
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If you are getting small underexposure without softbox, I may have to bump it up a little. Good thing these 800s have more power than I need.
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It really depends. A few days ago, I was shooting someone wearing a bright white shirt and it was burning out like crazy so in that case, yes (and I also moved the lights around a bit to try to minimize it). In general of course, like with slide film, a bit under is a lot safer than a bit over. The nice thing about digital is it's easy to evaluate it on the spot and correct it then.
Thanks Loren:
No, I haven't....you can power them down quite a ways. Be sure you're shooting at the lowest ISO setting. I typically shoot for F8, however, as I like to have some DOF on the subject. You could always trying draping a layer of something (cloth, rip-stop, etc.) over the front of your lights if you needed to cut it more than the light itself allows.
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