Off Camera Lighting
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The new C1 Plus from Profoto is a high-quality, handheld flash and continuous light unit that syncs perfectly with your smartphone. We took it out for a test run in the streets of New York City to see how this light performs. We also take a quick look at the Profoto C1. Both models work with your smartphone and are great for photographers and content creators
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To help mobile shooters improve and add some unique qualities to their shots, Profoto has released the brand-new C1 and C1 Plus, a couple of compact, portable lights that will help take mobile images to new dimensions. As the popularity of digital photography continues to rise, advances in smartphone cameras and the growing number of social media sites such as
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Wedding photographer JB Salle shares some tips regarding off-camera lighting and how to use strobes effectively. He discusses lighting techniques that mimic the sun when there isn't enough natural light, as well as how to use a reflector to separate the subject from the backdrop. There are a lot of useful nuggets of information in this video, so watch this video! For even more, come back and peruse our comprehensive video library.
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In this B&H Event Space video, portrait and wedding photographer Bob Davis discusses and demonstrates a variety of simple and advanced portrait lighting techniques using a variety of small speedlights, full-sized studio flash, and continuous light.
As a Westcott spokesperson, Davis demonstrates a variety of Westcott accessories, including Westcott Deep Umbrellas (
Boasting the most power ever in a portable TTL light, Elinchrom wants to make some waves with the ELB 500 TTL. This compact battery-powered pack offers up to 500Ws of power while featuring some now-essential functions, like high-speed sync and a built-in radio receiver. Photographers will also appreciate the dual outputs of the pack, letting them connect the extremely lightweight heads, which will easily mount on a bracket on your camera
The honey badger is one of the most fearless creatures in the world, and it looks as though Interfit wants to be just as fearless with its desire to take on established players in the lighting industry, with feature-rich and affordable strobes—this time with the Honey Badger 320Ws Compact Flash Head, which weighs just 3 lb and measures 5" wide by 6" deep. It looks impressive, considering it is completely self-contained,
Profoto B1, I must thank you for illuminating the way during some of my darkest moments. Before you came along, the idea of having a capable and portable lighting kit of your caliber was unheard of. A stand-alone 500Ws monolight with lightning-fast flash durations and 20 fps burst shooting, and you manage to communicate with my camera in its own TTL language? Now I had access to features such as high-speed sync for working in more trying and bright scenarios. That wasn’t enough for you though, as it cannot be left out that you run on a battery