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Fresnel, focusing, and flood LEDs

Fresnel, focusing, and flood LEDs

From the course: Lighting with LED Panels

Fresnel, focusing, and flood LEDs

- [Instructor] It used to be, when somebody said, LED lights for photography, you would think a flat panel light. Well, that's not the case anymore. There's actually quite a number of manufacturers putting out focusing lights, or fresnel lights, that allow you to really put the light exactly where you want it and create either an intense spot or to flood it out to create a nice softer look. Now I like the fact that these lights are bright and I can move them around and really focus and control the look of my image. Let's go ahead and turn this around and take a look at the shadows that are thrown with this light, and I'm gonna zoom in and zoom out on the fresnel so you can see what happens as I focus it. So this is the focusing light pretty much flooded out, and it covers a wider area. Because it's a focusing light, you actually will see that the shadow is a lot sharper than when we use the flat panel light. So if I really wanna have nice, sharp shadows I could go ahead and use a…

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