For precise light pattern placement, he added 10-degree grid spots to the heads. He controlled reflected light and added subtractive fill with (D) two black cards placed beside the glassware.
We didn't want much of the light to spill onto the background, so we used grid spot adapters and other modifiers to focus the lights just on the players and some on the amplifiers.
Behind Joan, on the floor, I placed another flash head, bouncing it into a bell reflector with a grid spot. To achieve visual variety, I switched between the single spot and the even-illumination approach provided by the two lights in pan reflectors.
I'm waiting for the manufacturers to put more powerful modeling lights that are closer to daylight-balanced into these heads. If I put an extra-small softbox inches above someone's face with a 20-degree fabric Lighttools grid spot, ...
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