Studio Lighting
What are all the diffrent types of studio lighting?
For photography. What are all the different kinds of lights? What do each do or are used for?
There are really just two main types... continuous and strobe. They each have their pros and cons.
Continuous lights, sometimes called hot lights, are a "what you see is what you get" type of lighting. However, they live up to their name as they have to be very bright and get very hot. Your subject can become uncomfortable. Also, your subject must remain still or there can be blur. You usually have to mount the camera on a tripod. These lights are usually used for commercial product type photography.
Strobe lighting is simply a very powerful flash. There is no constant heat from the lights. If your model moves it will not cause blur as the strobe will freeze the movement. Also, you can handhold the camera. Strobes however, do not give you an EXACT preview of how your final lighting will look on your subject, but the modelling light function will be very close. Strobes are most often used with people photography.
Now you can get into hundreds of modifiers for the lights such as umbrellas and softboxes and grids and snoots and on and on, but there are still just two basic lighting methods.
steve
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