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). -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
