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Amazing Kenyan born photographer James Mollison, shot the recent United Colors of Benetton Kids Collection with the 43.5″ Mola Mantti. The size and softness of the Mantti is pefectly suited to photographing children. See more of the shoot at the Benetton website – www.benetton.com
Canadian born Colin Anderson moved to Australia from a young age with his parents, studied advertising / design and later went on to pursue a career in photography. Although Colin considers himself a generalist, he would categorise his work as stylistic, conceptual and often narrative driven. His unique approach has taken him into the hands of big companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Panasonic, Canon, MTV, Time, Mastercard and Kodak to name a few.
Colin loves shooting with the 43.5″ Mola Mantti:
I’ve been shooting with the 43.5″ Mola Mantti for over a year now and just love the quality of the light. I’ve used it for editorial, advertising and corporate work which has included shooting everything from fashion to food. I’ve even used it while shooting HD footage on the Canon 5D2 (link below) . This worked out great as the client required stills and l was able to easily switch back and forth without having to change my lighting set up. Great time saver.
Alot of his work is created as photoshop composites, expertly blending in elements to fulfil his visions. It is great to see some creative use of the Mola Softlights like this!
for Cosmopolitan Magazine
Colin was kind enough to also share his lighting setups
in the shot above, Colin uses the mantti pointed straight up, under the model
and the video Colin talked about earlier. Mola’s are the perfect match for continuous lighting as well as strobe.
make sure you check out his website: www.andersonproductions.com.au and his blog.
Sydney wedding photographer Jonathan Dear of Vibrant Photography loves to create stunning fashion + bridal images on-location showcasing the beautiful Australian landscape. The Mola Softlight is his modifer of choice for the often harsh Australian environments for “… its rigidity, speed of setup and dealing with conditions such as wind”
“I just love the light output from the Mola dishes. I drag them everywhere with me, even lugging the mantti over remote locations like sanddunes is well worth the effort.”
It’s great to see the Mola range used outdoors…
28″ Silver Setti, no sock with stacked Opal + PAD center diffusers
28″ Silver Setti with sock, stacked center diffusers (Opal + PAD)
28″ Silver Setti with sock and PAD diffuser…
43.5″ White Mantti with sock and stacked center diffusers (Opal + PAD)
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 + PAD diffusers, white sock and a fabric grid…
These other two shots were lit with a white 22″ Mola Demi with stacked Opal + PAD diffusers and a honeycomb grid…
more of Nick’s work is available at www.nickdandalos.com.
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In Nancy Brown‘s new photography book – ‘People Photography: Capturing Lifestyle for Art & Stock‘ we spot a 33.5″ Mola Euro in use!
Mola’s are not just for model-ly fashion photos, master photographer Nancy proves they are just as amazing at creating lifestyle images. Nancy was one of the earliest adopters of the Mola Euro, picking one up nearly 25 years ago! She came across Mola softlights at the first Photoplus Expo Mola exhibited at in New York.
Nancy Brown’s website: www.nancybrown.com.
The below photos were taken from the book which also includes Nancy discussing her lighting…
and groups of people…
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Multi-awarding winning Australian Photographers, Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell of Montalbetti+Campbell did an amazing photoshoot for the first airing of the Australian TV series – Make me a Supermodel.
The huge 3.7m square set was created on the floor, composed of a series of large printed panels, the backgrounds from Gay and Denis’ personal stock libaries. Shooting from an elevated position, the models were directed by Denis and Gay from above as they lay on the background. The photoshoot occured at B2 Studios.
A diffused 43.5″ Mola Mantti was used for these images, and in some images part of the difusion sock was masked to control the spill of the light.
The incredible results:
and some behind the scene’s photos…
Larger images and more behind the scene’s photos can be viewed on their website, www.montalbetticampbell.com.
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The 43.5″ Mola Mantti was used for the following Flare Fashion Magazine covers, and editorial shoots inside.
The host of Canada’s So You Think You Can Dance, Leah Miller, graces the cover below!
a behind-the-scenes video of the above Cover is linked below – click the image.
and a few pages from the same issue also using the 43.5″ Mola Mantti…
also check out a behind-the-scenes video of the flare shoot below… (courtesy of S1 TV )
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The July 2009 issue of Elle Canada Magazine we see 2 Mola’s being used. The cover was shot as part of the TV series, Project Runway Canada. For this cover they used the 43.5″ Mola Mantti. Photography by John van der Schildren.
In an inside spread, we spot a 28″ Mola Setti in use…
and a pdf document to the cover story here.