Strobe Vs Continuous Lighting Portraits

This week we compared the pros and cons of strobes vs.

Strobe vs continuous lighting portraits.

One of the more frequently asked questions i get when it comes to studio lighting is this. Elenahappiness for helping to make this video. All true but it can be said more bluntly. The big advantages of strobes vs continuous lighting for portraits are.

Sometimes you can increase or decrease the power of them up or down according to your needs. Thanks to our model elena g. Pros of continuous lighting. The big disadvantage of continuous lights is they are so woefully dim as compared to flash or to the sun.

Use in video shooting. Continuous lighting source if turn on it will stay on. It s photographer jay p. Do i prefer continuous lighting or strobes.

The continuous light allows you to see the light effect on your subject and scene. 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. 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. The first downside of constant lighting is that these lights even professional grade ones are not as powerful as a high quality strobe light.

Here s a new 11 minute video in which i compare the pros and cons of strobes vs.