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Work with continuous lights vs. strobes

Work with continuous lights vs. strobes

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Work with continuous lights vs. strobes

- So on this shoot, which was an indoor shoot, I used two different types of lights. And I like them both, they have their own strengths and weaknesses. And I thought, well, let's go over those right now. We'll start here with my continuous light. I like this guy. This is a very simple setup. It's made by Lowell, and they're called EGO lights, E-G-O. And what they are are compact fluorescents that are in here, I'll even give you a peek at these, right there, two of them in there. They're daylight balanced. They're very cool lights. And that's nice on a set so you don't kinda heat everything up. But they're continuous. And you noticed when I was taking pictures of Catherine, I could just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom because there's no recycle time. So the strength of these is that they're cool, they're pretty easy to carry, they're affordable, each one of these units is about $100. And you can shoot continuous. And they work very nice. I think the quality of light's quite good. But…

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