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Recommendation on portable continuous lighting?
Recently I shot with some continuous lighting and loved it. I understand they are not as powerful, so shooting outside I will continue to use my 580ex’s or strobe, but for indoor work, I would like to move to some continuous lighting. Any recommendations? LED? Battery powered? Easy to make it soft light? Dec 04 12 08:49 am Link Have a look at HMIs by Arri etc. Dec 04 12 09:05 am Link CreativeKvn wrote: Recently assisted on a corporate environmental portraiture shoot... the lens person was using ALZO PAN-L-LITE TWIN they totally rock! Dec 04 12 09:34 am Link There are numerous options depending on your budget and preferences, as well as your concept of portability. My small light kit weighs about 85 pounds. I own Arri, Mole, and Lowel instruments, Arri, Lowel, and Matthews stands, a bunch of grippage and all kinds of odds and ends (reflectors, black and normal foil, foamcore, gels and whatnot) and a lot of 25-50-foot power cords. (You can never have too many of those.) Dec 04 12 09:56 am Link CreativeKvn wrote: MN camera wrote: Define "portable". Dec 04 12 10:38 am Link CreativeKvn wrote: This what I use for video work. Dec 04 12 10:52 am Link A reflector? Sorry, I had to. Dec 04 12 11:13 am Link Consider this: http://www.amazon.com/Yongnuo-Pro-Video … B004JJIBC2 If you buy, order the Sony batteries and a charger. They last about an hour in continuous use and they are much more user froiendly than the six AAs you would otherwise use. Assuming a set of three lights, that's a lot of AA charging. At about $50 each, and being small and lightweight, it seems like a simpler approach, and they are much more portable, with no soft boxes to wrestle with... Dec 04 12 11:23 am Link Thank you for all the feedback. I came across these... Linco Flora 2000 Watt 2 Head Fluorescent Kit with Softboxes Seems also like an option, although it isn't really that portable. The LED panels are also really interesting, but there seems to be a big difference in price for the 1x1 panels. Not sure if 2 x 500 LED panels would be bright enough for good head shots. Ah, if I could only try them all  Dec 04 12 06:07 pm Link if you don't mind a bit of diy, you could get an hid headlight kit, mount it to a modified speed ring and power it with a gel cell battery. Dec 04 12 06:16 pm Link Not too portable, not as much as a speedlite, but hey.. these look good. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/8 … Video.html Flolight FL-110AWD Fluorescent Video Light with Wireless Dimming (5400K Daylight) for $349... Dec 05 12 10:17 am Link I'm looking at the same thing. My research has me leaning to the Arrilite 750 Plus, which has a built-in Chimera speedring. Paired with a video softbox, I'm good  Dec 05 12 10:46 am Link Jim Lafferty wrote: For photography or video? Dec 05 12 10:58 am Link Get a cheap generator for about a hundred bucks. Dec 05 12 11:15 am Link CreativeKvn wrote: Both, ultimately - but largely for photo. I've been shooting a lot of available light stuff lately at ISO1600+ so a near 1k source should do fine. Dec 05 12 12:20 pm Link ArtisticPhotography wrote: For tungsten that's likely okay. HMI or flouresceents w/o power factor correction could be problematic. Dec 09 12 12:40 am Link CreativeKvn wrote: Flourescents or LED arrays are great for making soft light and will not drain your power source as fast as an HID or tungsten source. My TD-5s running 200 watts flourescent will last about two hours with my generic portable battery. Dec 09 12 01:01 am Link |
