>From experience, and tl;dr: your LED floods are useless mixed with strobes used normally, but you can drag your shutter to make it work.
A bit more info. While that 30W flood puts out 3000 lumens, and that's impressive for an LED, strobes put out 10,000,000 lumens. https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/strobes-or-continuous-lighting-whats-the-better-choice-for-you--photo-14549 However, here's hope. If you drag your shutter you can in fact mix the two. Background light is one place where I have found that to work. Usually I use it when mixing strobe with ambient light, but it works just as well for any continuous light source, tungsten, CFL, LED, video projectors, etc. So balance your ISO and aperture and strobe power settings to get your strobes exposed right, then set your shutter speed to expose for the background. A couple of passes around the settings will get everything within useful range. You don't want your shutter speed too low or you'll get funky rim shadows from motion blur from your subject. On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I often use gelled strobes on black backgrounds to get a colored background > when shooting portraits. > I've also been fighting with panel lights like this in the background when > shooting dance because they're too bright and blow out channels > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GO39ERQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 > > Has anyone tried using them at hot lights for colored background along with > strobes? Are they bright enough? > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
