On Monday I received my new lights from Paul C Buff that I was patiently waiting for!  After a lot of research and thought, I went with the Einsteins because they suited my needs perfectly. I was looking for something not too expensive, with good power and variability, and short flash duration.

I love opening packages and had all these to open! It felt like Christmas!

Of course I wanted to try them out as soon as possible and it just so happened that I was hosting a couchsurfer at the time so I put him to work as my model

I just set up in my living room, which was a bit crowded, but I made do. I had ordered 4 lights, but after setting up found out that one was not working. After calling customer service the next day and doing some testing, it seemed to be that the flash tube was defective. Their customer service was great and that’s another reason I’m glad that I went with Paul C Buff! I only had to wait one or two rings to talk to someone and after explaining the situation and figuring out it was the flash tube, she kindly told me she would send me a new one, no charge, that day with the fastest delivery they could so it would get here the following day (it did arrive today!).

I set up a black seamless for a clean background and the 3 working lights: 2 gridded and gelled strip boxes and a beauty dish. Here’s a few of the shots we came up with.

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