Anyone use continuous lighting?

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Watching Peter Hurley the other day on youtube and I was surprised he uses constant lighting for his lighting with just a strobe for the background. Fair enough his kino flo lights are about £1500 each but I was still surprised.

Is it because he mainly does headshots?

I got to thinking about constant lighting and if anyone uses it ie fluorescent or even LED panels etc
 
Constant lighting is great if it works for you...For a lot of things you want to avoid "hot lights". Avoiding hot lights usually means low power/output.

So yeah, he gets away with using large LED panels because he's just doing headshots. You'll note that they are quite large and quite close... I also think they make a crappy catchlight the way he uses them... it's basically a rectangular "ringlight" type of thing.
 
You need to be careful of the "Blue Peter" effect...

Demonstrators/salespeople trying to push a specific product and actually showing one that they did earlier with the same model/clothing/pose/makeup but heavily retouched. It's very deceptive but I saw crowds of people deceived by this technique at a photography show.

Any smooth operator can do this, and anyone with an editing programme can make a shot look good in a video. Actually producing good shots with equipment that is less than ideal is hard.
 
Constant lighting is the most controllable of all.
However it tends to be bulky, heavy, and costly and needs plenty of room, and a lot of power.. These were factors not thought a problem in the past.

The advent of newer LED options are changing the balance slightly in their favour especially for studio work.

This was a self portrait taken in the 50's Note the large 2000w Flood and small mole 500w spot in the picture. The shot was lit with a much larger flooded spot and soft flood out of shot.

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