How to dramatically change your studio lighting with a gridded stripbox

I have posted before about one of my most favorite light modifiers in the studio – a gridded Profoto 1’x6’ strip-box (B&H / Amazon). It is a surprisingly adaptable light source in how you can swivel it and tilt it and rotate it. This tall stripbox gives a soft light, but highly directional. Once you realize you don’t have to use stripboxes in a strict vertical position, a lot of options open up.

For example:

Using a gridded stripbox as the main light (model: Claudia)
Profoto: How to use gridded strip boxes as the main light (portraits of kids)

Creating a more dramatic look for Stephanie and Alens, as if there is a stage-light on them, or maybe simulating a light shining from above from a lamp-post … I used a gridded Profoto 1×6 stripbox. It gives that interesting light fall-off from the top to the bottom, with the light simultaneously dramatic yet soft.

The pull-back / BTS shot will how how the stripbox was used.

You can see the tall Profoto 1’x6’ gridded strip-box (B&H / Amazon) with a Profoto 50 degree soft-grid (Amazon), titled at an angle, with the top angle close to the canvas backdrop. This way the light shines down on them, and there is the conical shape to the way the light spills on the backdrop.