From: Bong Manayon
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:34 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> Re: About Studio Lighting kinds
>
> First year students get to work with REALLY OLD Studio Hot Lights, and I
> mean HOT, HOT, HOT - gloves & hot pads mandatory. The stuff you see in old
> Hollywood movie stills.
>
> Although, they do get introduced to some Speedotrons, Photogenics & Alien
> Bees during Summer Semester just before second year begins. We also used
> Vivitar 285s & dedicated speed lights (if you could afford them).
>
> Second year students can also use hot lights if they want to, as long as
> they don't deprive the first year students.
>
Yup, this is what we do in school too, but not necessarily to punish
the freshmen but to help them visualize their photos. Which is
ultimately the advantage of continuous lighting; pure strobes (i.e.,
flash) does not give you that unless it has a modeling light--which
the Falconeyes provide (which I have experience with).
The thing I'm learning however, is the modeling lights cannot be relied
upon to set lighting ratios.
They show you *WHERE* the light will fall, but even the ones with
variable power modeling lights are not proportional to the power of the
strobe.
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