We caught up with Dave recently shooting on assignment. His assistant Justin holding 2 FourSquares for the shot. If they could only find one more strobe!!

Dave said "I could't do it with out the FourSquare, that's for sure."

Another shot of the booth with the FourSquare this year. I thought Brenda was the all knowing Lightware guru... where is she?

It has been very busy here at the booth. The biggies aren't here this year ... Adobe, Apple, Calumet, MAC Group, hmmmmmm a sign of our current economy...perhaps?. NYC is just so expensive to do a show.

Photo Plus Opened today, Cowboy Bob warms himself prior to the morning ride over to the NYC Jacob Javits Center. Cowboy Bob is so excited to help show off the new FourSquare. Bob loves the big city .......Yeeeeee Hawwwwww.

Jay Dickman using the FourSquare

Here you can see that Jay is shooting through the FourSquare soft box, using it like a beauty dish.

Jay Dickman a Pulitzer- Prize winning photographer, who is also a regular contributor to National Geographic, was kind enough to let us tag along on a shoot. He was photographing a fly fisherman using the FourSquare. You can check out Jay's website at www.jaydickman.net.

Here is the "snoot" we used, it is approximately 6 inches in length. You can see where we attached it with blue tape in the overall set shot. The local hardware store can be a great resource for lighting ideas. You just have to let yourself think outside of the box.

Using a black card attached to a C stand with clamps, allows us to feather in the fill light from above. Our fill is the FourSquare light. Using a black card attached to a C stand with clamps, allows us to feather in the fill light from above. Our fill is the FourSquare light.

Here is what our set looked like.

For this shot we moved the tripod and zoomed in a bit. We reduced the key and fill speedlights all by half power from our previous settings, allowing our homemade shop vac snoot speedlight to dominate

This week we have taken it a step further. Same Canon 1-Ds Mark III and same 24-105mm lens, but we revamped the lighting. We had a total of 4 Canon Speedlights 580EX II. One on the camera set to master mode (not firing). The key was set to +0 power with a sepia colored Rosco gel, mounted on a regular light stand shot through 36"x18" grid of glass block (plastic block works just as well and is half the price). The fill light was set -2 power, our top light, shot into the side wall of the FourSquare. We used 2 diffusion screens to cut as well as soften the light. We use a black card clamped to a C-stand to feather the fill light, creating a graduation of light. The spot highlight comes from our last speedlight set to -1 power with an improvised snoot made from a shop vac attachment. A Rosco sepia gel covering half the "snoot" right down the middle. We wanted a touch of light spilling out from both sides of the gel.

New Images using the FourSquare

This was a down and dirty simple shot with a Canon 1-Ds Mark III with a 24mm-105mm. One 580EXII in the FourSquare box with the one layer of diffusion on the front. Also bounced another 580EXII into a white card about five feet above the set for fill.

Dave Black is at it again

These are from another one of Dave Black's great seminars. This one was shot in Long Island, NY. The FourSquare is good in the evening and on into the night.

They are coming !!!

We didn't forget!!! The 1/4 20s are here and we are getting them ready to go out!!!

Potato Masher

Camera: Nikon D3X, ISO 100, 1/125, f11, 4550 k, Manual Mode, 24-70mm 2.8.

Key Light: One Sunpak auto511 set to full power inside the FourSquare softbox.

Background Light: One Lumedyne head with a standard reflector set to wide at 100 w/s.

I have been testing a variety of old school flashes to ensure their compatibility with the FourSqaure. The FourSquare is a truly a versatile tool that can be used with just about any hot shoe flash.

Peré Images

Shot with a 70mm lens on a D3 at 1/125 at F11. Single Nikon SB24 bounced into a FourSqaure soft box.

Dave Tejada's Photography

Dave has been using the FourSquare at his Small Strobe Big Results workshops all over the country. Showing his students how to control and modify the quality of light produced from a typical shoe mounted flash using many tools including the FourSquare. Dave shooting in Buffalo, NY using a single Nikon SB 800 in a FourSquare box boomed over the model. Two Nikon SB 800 with full CTO gels on the model back right and left.



Using a single Nikon SB 800 in a FourSquare box boomed over the model.

This is showing the set up with the FourSquare and a bounce fill below.

Dave Black Photography

This is done with Dave's "moody blue" technique. For more information on this technique see http://www.daveblackphotography.com/workshop/index.htm.


Close and dramatic showing how well the FourSquare can light up the rider and the bike.


Dave's assistant is hold the FourSquare on a boom following the motorcross rider. It is so light and portable that every assistant (including the girls) can work with it.



Another unique perspective, from noted photographer Dave Black, using the FourSquare.

Lucas Gilman

The FourSquare can give you high quality studio lighting. Even when you are working on the fly in the basement of a bar in Spain.

Dave Black uses the FourSquare

The beauty of the FourSquare is that you can use it with any strobe designed to fit in a hot shoe. It can be triggered with infrared, radios, or traditional sync cable. You can use it with as many as 4 but as little as 1, it can also be used as a reflector.