I'm curious how to get this look ?

[Anthony Thomas]

I'm sure a strobe was used to achieve this look.
How would I achieve this look in motion with hot lights / constant lighting?
It looks like a big single source (strobe in big umbrella)?
The falloff on the side of her face and the white wall behind her makes me think the strobe was throwing a lot of light.
Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated.
thank you.
Anthony T.

[Michael Romano]

Best guess? HMI with a chimera, you might even try a grid on the front. Looks like a 400w Joker might even do the trick.

[Anthony Thomas]

Best guess? HMI with a chimera, you might even try a grid on the front. Looks like a 400w Joker might even do the trick.

Wow -That'd be a relief if I could get away with a 400 joker. I was imagining that it would take at least a couple joker 800's or 1200 HMI's either bounced into maybe a 10X10 frame of something (like bleached mus) or shooting through a 10X10 of some grid cloth.

[Liam Hall]

Looks to me like an 8ft Octobox 45 degrees camera right and about 8-10ft high. Stick whatever you like in it - tungsten, HMI, whatever. Oh, and don't forget to turn your camera on its side...

[Michael Romano]

I though the whole thing looked smaller... Maybe I'm off on it.

[Mike P.]

Grey walls... Or is that just stupid?

[Florian Stadler]

Looks like a larger round softbox (4-8') on camera right focused in front of the subject, leaving the subject in the penumbra of the light.

[Anthony Thomas]

Grey walls... Or is that just stupid?

It's a white cyc , but the light fall off has rendered it gray.

[Anthony Thomas]

Looks like a larger round softbox (4-8') on camera right focused in front of the subject, leaving the subject in the penumbra of the light.

Alright so I found out that the photo was actually taken with a cheap 39" silver umbrella/strobe combo... so it's not actually as big of a source as it seems.
Is there an inexpensive way to get an HMI in an umbrella to get that look? I know that Briese LA does this but they also cost $ and require a operator to come out with the rig (and that's just not in our budget).
Is there a "poor mans" silver umbrella / HMI combo ? I have access to a 1.2K HMI so I'm half way there : ) Or perhaps I can just bounce the HMI into a big silver relfector ?
thanks for chiming in everyone.

[Liam Hall]

A Lowel tota light will do exactly that. I'd still use an 8ft octobox though - as I prefer the control.