Quote Originally Posted by Frank Petronio View Post
It's really a shame most photographers get stuck on strobe*. Hot lights are a lovely way to work and it is so much easier to see the light rather than guessing what is going on or chimping a hundred times with your digital (or burning Polaroids $$$) just to do an obvious shot.

*I qualify this though... shoot a group of people and you need strobe, no group is going to be patient enough for hot lights.
My old Speedotron heads have modeling lights, and I do admit to using just the modeling lights on occasion with black and white, and when the lighting needed to be really close. But they are too yellow for color, even tungsten-balanced color.

Now, when I need really close lighting to provide that shadowless, enveloping effect, I use a shoot-through umbrella or a translucent scrim, sometimes mounted on its own stand, with the light as far back as needed.

But it's been so freaking long since I've had a use for studio lights that I'm not even sure they would work if I plugged them in.

Rick "who likes the sound of that gigantic capacitor charging up" Denney