Modelling light or flash
- Thread starter Magicman
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A mixture of the two will give you colour balance problems! Otherwise these is little you can do with the modeling lights that you couldn't do with the flash. Blurry shots - deliberately or otherwise is the only thing I can think of!
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The point of modelling lights is not only that they allow you to see what sort of effect the flash will have, but that they are so low powered (relative to your flash) that they don't record at all in a flash photo. Hence 'mixing the two' means balancing a long modelling light exposure with the short flash burst, and in any moving subject this would lead to blur, ghosting or both
Aside from that, you have two very different White Balances, so again aside from looking for effects this is not going to work well either
Lastly, the modelling light is exactly the same direction/softness as the flash too, so what's the point :shrug:
There's definitely a time/effect for using modelling lights alone with some subjects and for flash on others, mixing them is pretty near pointless IMO
HTH
DD
Aside from that, you have two very different White Balances, so again aside from looking for effects this is not going to work well either
Lastly, the modelling light is exactly the same direction/softness as the flash too, so what's the point :shrug:
There's definitely a time/effect for using modelling lights alone with some subjects and for flash on others, mixing them is pretty near pointless IMO
HTH
DD