From the course: Lighting with LED Panels
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LED lights vs. stobes
From the course: Lighting with LED Panels
LED lights vs. stobes
- The first things I wanna compare are traditional strobe lighting versus continuous lighting and you're probably using strobe lighting now, that quick flash of light. Before we get into that, let me explain what LED stands for, Light-Emitting Diode and if you look closely at any LED light, you see it's actually made up of a lot of various small lights that light up in contrast with each other and you can control these in a variety of ways. You can control how bright they are, you can control the color temperature, but they're really these little diodes. So now we have out of the way, let's look at some of the differences between strobe lighting and its benefits and continuous lighting. So, you're probably using strobe lighting either on your camera, that could be a speed light, so if you take a picture with your camera, the light pops, or if you're using studio lights, or studio strobes, you might have a trigger, and again, when you take your picture, the light pops. It's a very…