The first downside of constant lighting is that these lights even professional grade ones are not as powerful as a high quality strobe light.
Strobe vs continuous lighting portraits.
All true but it can be said more bluntly.
Continuous lighting source if turn on it will stay on.
Pros of continuous lighting.
Continuous light and conducted some indoor and outdoor lighting tests between the two for you to decide which one to use when you are shooting.
Sometimes you can increase or decrease the power of them up or down according to your needs.
Continuous light and conduct some indoor and outdoor lighting tests.
One of the more frequently asked questions i get when it comes to studio lighting is this.
The big disadvantage of continuous lights is they are so woefully dim as compared to flash or to the sun.
The one way to identify what is most powerful is to look at whether or not it is capable of overpowering the sun such as when shooting outdoor portraits in the middle of the day.
Do i prefer continuous lighting or strobes.
This week we compared the pros and cons of strobes vs.
Thanks to our model elena g.
The big advantages of strobes vs continuous lighting for portraits are.
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The continuous light allows you to see the light effect on your subject and scene.
Use in video shooting.
The answer to that question has changed over the last near eleven years of shooting portraits in the studio due to changes in technology and changes to my shooting style.