Softlights

Mola spotted: Carrie Underwood for SELF Magazine

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / BTS Videos / Mola Spotted

Spotted! We spot a white 33″ Mola Euro being used for this??SELF magazine cover shoot with country singer Carrie Underwood, photographed by Stewart Shining. Like the previous SELF shoot we blogged earlier, a white 33″ Mola Euro has been used with the OPAL glass and no front diffuser. Behind-the-scenes video from the shoot is below; [youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlJHValgKmQ[/youtube] and some stills sourced from google images,

Mola spotted: Taylor Swift shoot for SELF Magazine

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Mola Spotted

Spotted! We spot a white Mola 33″ Euro being used for this SELF magazine cover shoot with famous country singer, Taylor Swift. The white 33″ Euro was used with the OPAL glass and no front diffuser. Behind-the-scenes video from the shoot is below; and some stills from the shoot* *stills pulled from there web so are not a guarantee of color / final quality

Mola user: Fiona Quinn – Veuve Noir shoot

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users

Fiona Quinn makes our heart skip a beat again with her beautiful rendition of her ‘Veuve Noir’ shoot published in M2 Womans Magazine. Fiona lit this with a white 28″ Mola Setti, shot in studio at Kingsize Studios in Auckland, NZ. More workshops are planned for early 2012 by Fiona in New Zealand – make sure you get a chance to read up on them on her blog (includes previous workshop images) More thoughts and images on Fiona’s Veuve Noir […]

Mola user: Polina Osherov – Living Doll shoot

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / BTS Videos / Featured Mola Users

We recently came across a lovely shoot ??by talented Indianapolis??fashion photographer,??Polina Osherov. Here Polina uses a speedlight mounted on the Mola Lumi bracket with the 22″ Demi. “For lighting, I used my Mola beauty dish as the key light and filled either with available light or one of my speedlights bounced off a reflector. The hair light was either John?۪s video light or one of my AB800s with the snoot modifier.” One of the advantages of using a speedlight with […]

Llumm Studios & Innovafoto Mola test

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Mola Education / Mola Tips

Our fantastic friends at Llumm Studios, Valencia Spain, recently teamed up with the Spanish Mola distributor, Innovafoto, to create a comprehensive Mola test. There intention was to recreate the same conditions for each softlight, so they could appreciate the differences that exist among the different Mola range. “I am just excited about the new Mola reflectors. My company, Llumm Studios, in collaboration with Innovafoto, has collected each Mola reflector model to arrange a comprehensive test of their differences and??peculiarities. …??I […]

Mola product: Mola Quadra Speedring

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / New Products

Mola is excited to release a new dedicated speeding for the Elinchrom 400w Quadra lighting system. No longer do you need to use an Elinchrom speeding and the Elinchrom RQ-to-EL adapter. This new speedring will ensure the quadra’s flashtube will sit deep into any of the Mola range, making sure you get the most out of your Mola + Quadra combo. and the new speeding with the elinchrom quadra mounted on a mola (compression mounting system) We have tested the […]

Mola spotted: David Tessieri shoots Irina Shayk

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / BTS Videos / Mola Spotted

Spotted! We spot a 33″ Mola Euro used by New York fashion and advertising photographer, David Tessieri as he creates some gorgeous images with supermodel??Irina Shayk. This ‘Baila, Luili Baila’ Spring / Summer 2011 collection was shot for Luli Fama Swimwear, on location at the Viceroy Miami Hotel, Miami. www.davidtessieri.com Enjoy the behind-the-scenes video below… [youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRq-bcIwDcs[/youtube] and the resulting images…

Mola user: Emily Soto – Monique Victoria

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users

Chances are, if you’ve ever googled ‘mola setti’ you would have come across Californian fashion photographer??Emily Soto’s gorgeous work. In this shoot, Emily Soto shoots America’s Next Top Model contestant – Monique Victoria at the beach with a white 28″ Mola Setti and Alienbees flash. [youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUE2EEj2kqY[/youtube] and some finals from the shoot above… Make sure you check out Emily’s blog and Youtube feed for some more behind-the-scenes and beautiful photography. www.emilysoto.com

Mola user: Fiona Quinn – beauty shoots

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users

New Zealand photographer, Fiona Quinn, is back to bring us the quinn-tesential look in her recent beauty editorial shoots. The first utterly gorgeous shoot is care of an editorial Fiona shot for M2 Woman’s Magazine, titled ‘A Brighter Shade of Pale’. This was shot with the??28″ Mola Setti… + you can read Fiona’s thoughts on her blog post here from this shoot. the second shoot was titled “Model Muse – Casey Lee” and was shot with the??22″ Mola??Demi… + you […]

Mola tip: diffuse your Mola

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Mola Tips

Another way of softening the output of your Mola beauty dish is to use a diffusion sock. Unknown to a lot of people is that Mola actually makes 4 different types of diffusion socks for their entire range of Mola’s; (22″ – 43.5″) Standard nylon diffuser Mesh diffuser LW diffuser LW vented diffuser Standard nylon diffuser; nylon diffuser on B&H When you purchase a new Mola, it ships with the standard nylon diffusion sock as seen below (installed on a […]

Mola tip: stacking your diffusers

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Mola Tips

We’ve mentioned a few times on this blog about Mola users using a stacked configuration for their Mola dishes. We’ve had a few people ask what this configuration looks like and how they can setup their dish also like this. When we refer to ‘stacked diffusers’ we are referencing the installation of both the PAD and OPAL discs in a stacked, or collated configuration. Here is an image of a stacked setup on a white Mola 22″ Demi… ?? When […]

Mola user: Jonathan Dear – ethereal muse

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users

We head back into the Southern Hemisphere again to catchup on some work by Sydney fashion and wedding photographer Jonathan Dear. Catching the last remaining autumn colours before they fade into winter, he organises a personal shoot with his model / muse, Nicole. “I love the softness I can pull out of the Demi. It makes one amazing modifier for moving around a lot on location due to its size and weight. I find it is super efficient which allows […]

Mola user: Fiona Quinn ??? The Magicians Daughter

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users

Fiona Quinn is back to bring us some stunning images from what she calls “…one of the most favourite shoot I have done”. Working with animals is never easy, especially with noisy equipment like smoke machines but “Othello was so chilled out we got away with it”. In this ethereal shoot, Fiona uses a socked 22″ Mola Demi as a gorgeous subtle fill light. “I wanted the shoot to evoke the crisp chilly mornings of Spring when there is mist […]

Mola spotted: Brad Trent shoots Macy’s CEO

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users / Mola Spotted

spotted! We spot a mola 22″ demi used by super NY photographer Brad Trent as he lights up Terry Lundgren, CEO of Macy’s. What we love to see here is Brad’s ingenuity in finding and setting up Mr Lundgren in an unsual backdrop, a pleasant escape from the typical commercial stand-in-amongst-your-business shots that a lot of execs have. Here we see Brad use a big fill light to illuminate the scene and a gridded mola demi to provide the key […]

Mola/s spotted: John van der Schilden for Elle Canada July 2011

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users / Mola Spotted

spotted! Today we spot a Mola 43″ Mantti and Mola 28″ Setti being used by the fabulous John van der Schilden for Elle Canada Magazine. In this July 2011 issue we see Tanzanian born model, Herieth Paul, grace the cover at only 17 years old. John takes to the rooftop with the big Mantti and smaller setti to create these gorgeous images. Location lighting and Mola equipment was provided by S1 Studios in Toronto. and assistant Paolo Croistante making sure […]

Mola user: Fiona Quinn – The Distance

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users

Heading back to New Zealand we check up on some more of Fiona Quinn’s latest beautiful work. Recently Fiona’s been very busy shooting outdoor editorials before the NZ winter sets in. The shoot below was for M2 Woman’s Magazine. Fiona calling this editorial shoot ‘The Distance’, drawing on inspiration from a location she sourced literally by the side of the road. Head over to her blogpost on this shoot to read her thoughts and process. Fiona uses a white 22″ […]

Mola spotted: Nelson Simoneau shoots Coco Rocha

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / BTS Videos / Mola Spotted

spotted! We spot a 33″ white Mola Euro used by incredible photographer, Nelson Simoneau as he photographs model Coco Rocha for the May 2011 issue of ELLE??Qu̩bec. Wardrobe is from the world renowned designer, Jean Paul Gaultier. His 35 years of fashion design will be on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, including over 120 haute couture dresses and ready-to-wear pieces made from 1976 – 2011. In honour of this exhibition, ELLE magazine commisioned an exclusive editorial featuring […]

Mola user: Matt Lanham

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / Featured Mola Users

Today we head downunder to Australia to visit Matt Lanham’s stunning work. Matt contacted us recently thanking us for creating the Mola Setti which he …”really started to fall in love with…” when using it on a recent swimwear shoot. The mola he was using was the 28″ Setti. In his blog post from this shoot Matt comments; “I purchased a Mola 28″ Setti a little while ago, and was quite fond of it, but it truly came out on […]

Mola spotted: Yu Tsai shoots Lenny Kravitz

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / BTS Videos / Mola Spotted

spotted! We know Yu Tsai does sexy things with Mola’s. This time we spot Yu using 2 Mola 33″ Euros to light up singer Lenny Kravitz in a VS magazine backstage shoot. Behind-the-scenes video below… [youtube width=”640″ height=”390″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt3Wy1Px9TA[/youtube]

Mola spotted: Moon Apparel Spring 2011 shoot

ByJim King 08/21/2019 0 Blog / BTS Videos / Mola Spotted

spotted! We spot a Mola 28? Setti being used on the set of another of the Moon Apparel’s campaigns. This time its the Spring 2011 shoot. You can view a behind-the-scenes video from the shoot by clicking on the image below…

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