Adding a Small LED Light to Your Studio Set Up. We Tried It and Have the Results.

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From an upcoming video, we pulled some clips showing the attempted use of a handheld, well diffused LED light. While this type of light is best used for video it seemed bright enough to perhaps influence some studio portrait photography.
Since we shoot with powerful strobes at an average working aperture of f11, the amount of LED light registering is far from overbearing. We were pleased with its ease of use and long lasting charge. It was set for a 5500k white balance to best match our studio strobes, but it didn't do much in this set up.
If you want to use one or more of these for studio photography, they'll work well if you increase your ISO a little, (and power down the strobes if you're using them). Working them against powerful strobe lights was just a test to see if they were strong enough to even show up! In the throws of an actual customer studio session, we added the A-1 to the mix. This is not actually the intended use.
Subsequently we did employ the A1 for video and found it to be very worthy for our tool box.
Thanks for watching! When the whole video releases, you'll see this was just a few quick tests.
This is the Ambitful A1
Great light, well built and I love the included diffuser. Highly recommended for video, small cameras, and nearly any general photography. Mixing "constant light" with strobe is difficult at best.
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[@josefrodriguez7441]

Nice. In post did you have to do a lot editing for exposure? Maybe the video aspect of it but it appears at one point the young man to be bothered by the light. Was this the case?

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No adjustments to the images. The continuous light barely showed. I think the brightness could be uncomfortable for some subjects, but it DOES help the subjects pupil close down, resulting in more eye color. Overall it's best to use in set ups that are more natural light. You can set the color temp to match what id already there. In cases like this, I've used it as a hair or kick light. (On a stand) The A1 has reallt nice adjustable hardware.
Thanks for watching.