Tag : Mola Demi

Mola user: David Nguyen II

LA Fashion / Beauty Photographer David Nguyen is back kicking some serious pixels, this time in the form of a short promo video + stills. This video gives a fantastic insight into David’s journey into photography, his approach to it and how he shoots on location. You can check out the previous video we blogged here. In the below video David mentions Mola at around the 2:00 mark… Inside the Studio: DAVID NGUYEN feat. MOLA Products from Matt Rodgers on […]

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Mola user: Fiona Quinn

Mola user: Fiona Quinn

New Zealand photographer Fiona Quinn has provided us with some utterly gorgeous shots she has taken with the 22″ Mola Demi. Fiona reguarly shoots assignments in Australia and New Zealand, shooting fashion and editorial shoots. I received my white Mola Demi about eight months ago after hiring quite a few times from the local rental studio here. It’s a great product and I take it everywhere with me in NZ and Australia and the easily changed speedring means I can […]

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Mola user: Richard Warren

Mola user: Richard Warren

Ending the blog-drought with a few more updates, we’d like to introduce you to Richard Warren. Richard Warren is an incredible New York fashion photographer based in NYC. His editorial and non-editorial client list reads like the who’s who of the fashion world, including Vogue, Bazaar, Cosmo, Glamour, GQ, Marie Claire etc! Here is some examples of his work, utilising a gridded 22″ Mola Demi softlight. Make sure you check out the rest of his inspiring portfolio at www.richardwarrenphotos.com.

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Mola user: Nick Dandalos

Mola user: Nick Dandalos

We initially came across Nick Dandalos’ stuninng work over at Modelmayhem. Nick is a London based fashion and glamour photographer with published work in a number of international men’s magazines. Here are some his mola-lit shots: In this gorgeous shot, Nick uses a clever technique of stacking 2 diffusers inside the Mola for a even softer centre-core of light. (We will discuss this technique in a later post) It was lit with a white 43.5″ Mola Mantti with stacked Opal […]

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Seminar: Wedding Warrior Survival Guide

Seminar: Wedding Warrior Survival Guide

Incredible wedding / fashion photographer Walter Malabehar Cantu (of Kaizen Photo) is hosting a seminar on wedding photography and lighting on the 30th of January 2010 at Calumet Chicago. Walter has previously been featured on our ‘Who’s Using‘ section of the main Mola Light website. The seminar deals with a number of different lighting styles, but he will also cover Mola products. Details on the seminar are here. Also check out his blog for some mola-ry mention. beauty shots with […]

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News: Mola Lumi Bracket

News: Mola Lumi Bracket

The NEW Mola Lumi tilt bracket was created to mount speedlights / lightweight strobes on the existing 22″ Mola Demi (sold seperately). The bracket mounts on alternative screws of the demi, allowing for easy removal of the interior diffuser. Included with the bracket design is a completely new Lumilux diffuser, specifically optimised for the output of these smaller strobe units to give you the trademark mola-light output. Photos taken with the Lumi / Demi combo will be added to this […]

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Mola users: Kat + Duck – Tarred & Feathered

We have had a number of amazing submissions recently, from previous featured photographers and some new photographers. Today we introduce fashion and beauty photography team, Kat & Duck from Brooklyn, New York. They share with us a recent editorial they shot for Z!NK magazine titled ‘Tarred and Feathered’. In this shoot they used a white 22″ Mola demi with OPAL central deflector and a black grid. Here are some of their stunning images, with the final inclusions in Z!NK at […]

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Llumm Studios & Innovafoto Mola test

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 […]

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Mola user: Fiona Quinn – The Magicians Daughter

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 […]

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Mola spotted: Brad Trent shoots Macy’s CEO

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 […]

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