Thanks so much u took away my confusion as I’m buying my first light and was confused between continuous and strobe now I know exactly what I want 👍🏻👍🏻

Strobes make the most sense for me. Since I frequently shoot corporate headshots on locations, the power to completely kill the ambient without turning off the lights and hanging duvetyne over the windows(neither very popular in an office) is key. With the mixed lighting(fluorescent/daylight) normally polluting the space, killing it is the best way to get good color. I can accomplish that goal with a few easily portable speedlights(kit size is critical since I often cab/Uber around NYC). That said, I started out with tungsten 'hot lights' and then fluorescent equivalents in my home studio where I could easily knock down the ambient at the flick of a switch. I still have the fluorescent ones for the occasional product shot when other gear gets put on Ebay. If you have a space where you can control the ambient, there's nothing wrong with continuous lights.

This was a very helpful video! I was already leaning toward strobes, but this convinced me.

Thanks for this demonstration! I live the crisp clean results of strobes.

dear Joel, I would like to told you that your work and your ability in teaching is a great value for all. Your lessons, supported and builded around extraordinary shots, are so precious. Your art supports our passion and feeds our eyes. Thanks so much for sharing all this beautiful work! Have a nice day!

I've been researching this like crazy....nice to see you're adding to it. :)

Thanks for sharing! So informative!

You're awesome man,key em coming

Thank you so much! So helpful. I am taking your still life photography course and I’m learning a lot! 🙂

@joelgrimes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! I look forward to seeing your still life images!

Could you upload a video on how to use a flash meter and lighting ratios for indoor and outdoor photos?

Joel. thank you very much for your explanation. it helped me to better understand and guide me through my next purchase. cheers,

Nice antique camera props... would love to see a video of your experience with them! Especially with strobes!

Could you do a live stream coverage of your photo shoot for a regular client (with non models)?

Hi Joel i love all your work I used Strobe and I use natural light (window ) personally I prefer window light

Thank you for that last comment. It doesn't matter what you use. Be an artist. :) this was very informational.

Good stuff Joel, right on par with your pricing video. I share it with anyone who asks. :)

HI Joel Grimes is it possible to know where you get your outfits for those shoot?

What I’ve been doing lately is using continuous lights for my base fill and a strobe for my key light. Let’s me flood the shoot space with continuous light. I control the amount of base fill with my shutter speed and control the key via the power control on the strobe trigger. It’s been working great, and gives the video guys doing bits more light to shoot with. If the continuous lights doesn’t work out to enough light to be the fill, then I add a small kicker strobe in a strip box on axis below camera to bring up the shadows on the subject to where I want them in addition to the continuous lights.

the size of the subjects pupils(in the eyes) are a huge influence on the desirability of a portrait too, flash shows dilated pupils, continuous gives tiny pupils, dilated wins hands down 99%of the time

@itsthehumor95

4 жыл бұрын

Great point

Cool video nice job thanks you for sharing

You can freeze action just with flash duration so this makes since. Never thought about it comparing 'always on' lights for photography. Lower iso is always a great thing too ;) Thanks for sharing!

@vbammodawg

4 жыл бұрын

Rotolight Continuous Lights have HSS strobe functionality built in as well for freezing action.

Finally someone did this test! I notice continuous light does bring noise cus of having to raise your ISO.

@CinesavageFilms

4 жыл бұрын

Rawl of the Dead leave the iso low and use more lights

One thing you can test is the pupil size. Since the continuous light will shrink the pupil. Strobe is better.

Modern led definitely have a strong advantage with pupils, strobes you can spot easily since the eyes quickly dilate and you have more center black then eye color verse continuous led lighting. There’s also a more natural look and feel to the continuous lighting over the strobe, I’ve used strobe lighting for two decades but over the last year I find myself using more continuous. Specially around kids and animals since they react to strobe lights with blinking or flinching back. Another big advantage is shooting outdoors at sunset, you can balance everything beautifully and get a clean face with a great background. And even in full sunset you can still shoot a moving subject with easy focusing. Works great when switching between cameras, which is easier then swapping lenses outdoors. Especially between medium and FF formats or different brand cameras and focal lengths. You also know what to expect with every photo it’s already in your viewfinder.

That was so helpful Joel. I have always had questions on strobe v continuous lights. 👌

@joelgrimes

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@mattorrz759

3 жыл бұрын

@@joelgrimes Have a great 2021 mate. 🍺

Can you do the same thing with Canon Speedlites?

Great job as always Joel, wondering if you might be interested in orientation regarding gallery art photography, I've been a commercial photographer for over 20 years and never beeing at any exhibition nor had the time to exhibit my work, after all this years I'd love to give it a try to my personal project and get those thousands of slides and rolls out of their boxes. Thank you for your valuable time, great content and encouraging words that Do make a great addition to your channel. Alberto.

This is the second video I’ve seen that is related to strobes vs continuous light. A similar video by another photographer discussed using continuous led lights. That photographer found that even though the lights appeared brighter, it did a few things... . Too bright to point at someone for a portrait. The person was inclined to squint. With a modifier it cut the light just like any other light. But like your discussion, higher iso causing digital noise, and a strobe gives you better tonal range

@joelgrimes

3 жыл бұрын

Finding the middle ground that suits your needs can take a lot of tweaking definitely, Andrew!

I have a big problem with this comparison. You won't get noise in the blacks if you use high quality continuous light with more power. for example, Joker Bugs, ARRI HMI or Nanlight Forza 5oo or 800. Also not mentioned, the ability to shoot with a wider aperture to gain a shallow depth of field. These two factors are incredibly important factors for shooting with continuous light.

Nice

Big question with motion, my biggest issue with strobe lights, refresh rates. How do you shoot someone moving? Can you shoot 10 FPS or 20 FPS? If your continuous lighting is set up properly freezing motion is much easier with continuous lighting. Granted one strobe light might do the job of two continuous lights due to the strength differences between them.

@joelgrimes

3 жыл бұрын

If you aren't trying to capture something like the top of a jump, which you can repeat over and over, then continuous might serve you better yes

The Rotolights Aeros is the only LED that has flash built into it.

How does having the constant light in the model's face affect the model?

@shaolin95

5 жыл бұрын

They get used to it fast. I thought it will be worst but they have no preference from the small poll I did

Interesting vídeo. You could have taken the continuous light photo with a lower ISO by rising the apperture - ex: ISO 400 / f 2.8 or ISO 200 / f 2.0 - in which cases there would be no noise to complain about. Also, you mentioned you used a bigger source (softbox) for the strobe photos. If you had used an identical softbox on both cases I presume the strobe ones would have come out with even more clipped whites, which is one of the down sides of strobes in my opinion.

@nunooliveira4257

2 жыл бұрын

@@spanishprisoner Thanks for your remark.

I do see some difference (of course) but I'm not seeing anything I couldn't fix pretty easily in Lightroom.

@joelgrimes

3 жыл бұрын

Nice Jonathan! I like to set myself up just in case I can’t fix it in post. Better safe that sorry 🤓

@jonothandoeser

3 жыл бұрын

@@joelgrimes Better safe than sorry... right!

What's happened to Joel? Did he retire?

And, you can use a flash that has built in modeling lights.

@shaolin95

5 жыл бұрын

Modeling light is NOT the same as the flash. Its OK but nothing beats constant light for studio work if you have control over other lights

@T-Slider

5 жыл бұрын

I was unclear. Use strobes with modeling lights to see where the flash is going and get a reasonable view approximating the result.

Understood now try doing it with a flash LED light like the Rotolight Aeos. Its the only LED on the market that has flash built in.

@Richie5480

5 жыл бұрын

gkfotograhy powerhaus studios Yes I agree with you gkfotography, the Rotolight Aeros is amazing.

@shaolin95

5 жыл бұрын

It has flash but it is a weak light still. OK for studio but small size and no way to mount normal soft boxes kills it

@ThePatriotPath

5 жыл бұрын

You're better off with at least a speedlight.

I dont get it - the led was underpowered and if you dont want wide open shallow dof stick to strobes.

lol- the noise reduction looked better

If you are going to show us the comparison there should be zero edits.

So weird to hear you call yourself Joel Grimes, as that's my name.

Here's the bottom line. With a strobe I can do everything the continuous can plus more. What's the point of wasting my money.

@ThePatriotPath

5 жыл бұрын

Correct, IF you don't shoot video.

@hofra01

4 жыл бұрын

There is not such as wast of money. It all comes down to the work you do and what makes you comfortable. Like Peter Hurley he only uses continues light with his headshots eventho he knows very well how to use strobes and can afford any strobe he want, but he stick with continues light. And his headshots are just amazing way better than many headshot photographers that use strobes.

“Look here, how noisy the blacks are” 😅 come on man lol

@Kceedude

4 жыл бұрын

Well your racist.. ha ha he said blacks.... derp