LED in midday’s sun? The no-hype results!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- I used the Leica M11-P with the amazing Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f/1.2 III lens. And of course the light was the StellaPro Reflex S
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By the way, you videos has helped me a lot as photographer. I I really appreciate your no nonsense honest approach to your videos. I truly value your opinions on products. Thank you.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Really nice photos with continuous light outside. Your model looks like she's having fun - and that's 90% of getting good photos.
I’m pretty sure it’s impossible for her not to have fun in any situation. But you are so right!
And finally we move beyond high-speed sync. Always struck me as a halfway stop on the camera tech highway. Thanks for this vid. Stunning shots.!
Well if you don’t have a leaf shutter camera or the one and only global shutter, sometimes there is no choice but to use HSS. I personally am not a fan because of banding. There are some camera/flash setups that control banding better than others but if it shows up it’s really hard to correct in post. But hopefully the global shutter will take us past that very well coined “halfway stop”.
Brilliant. I think I need one. Thank you.
Very welcome. Thank you for watching.
Amazing how easily it looks when you put out such amazing images. Nice work and interesting light
Thank you. Well she’s a very pretty model so that helps a lot! 😂
Great results!
Thank you
Holay!!! All I can say is - wow!!! These shots are gorgeous! I may need to watch again to hear what you say about soft boxes with this light - are they simply not necessary? The images with the first outfit have such lovely, soft lighting.
You can always use an umbrella on these, but you can get softer looking lighting by just moving the light closer to the camera.
killer results. guess it shows how out of date I am with these things, the last time I shot with lights, to get anything that clean looking I was weighing down the lightstands with sandbags because the strobes I had rented were so heavy. hard to believe such a small little unit could do so much and be continuous as well.
Well my closest to this size setup back in the horse and buggy days was the Lumedyne setup with flash and battery pack
they should build a cold shoe for that light to fit on the new Lumix S9 cold shoe...kidding aside, the wood panel light shots were really cool. Question - any feedback from the model on squinting issues or eye annoyance from the constant LED and full power?
Well, there was one moment in the beginning where she was staring directly at the light when I turned it on after reminding her six times not to look at it where she squinted. But, other than that, she wasn’t bothered by the light at all.
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For a brief second, you can se him turn the light on and see how much it illuminates the model!
It really does show how effective these are
very nice! you still expose for the ambient light? ND filter? how do get that darker background?
Mr. Red Dot 🔴 great video. I must say that voiglander lens as some really nice look 👀
Great suggestions using the stellapro I own one 😊
🤣🤣 Mr Red Dot. That was funny! I really do love some of the Voigtlander lenses. Seems to grow as I use them. I do love the Stella Reflex now that they updated the battery.
@@kaskoPhoto I do have the one with updated battery so no complain so many usage but very noisy with fan above 2500 but for stills no complain.
Very interested but any chance you will have a discount code?
I see you used to have a 20% code for these in the past.
I am checking on that on Tuesday. Email me on Tuesday at john@kasko.photo
Nice work! Both of you! Did you do some skin/light softening in post?
Thank you and yes.
I have a couple questions? What kalvin is the light and is it easy to blend with other lights. Also How do you trigger it in flash mode? is there a transmitter for it? Thank you for your time and putting this together. Nice video.
I believe it is 5600 Kelvin, but never really metered it myself. When I use these lights, I only use these. In flash mode, they go a little warmer so I wouldn’t use them with a regular strobe. You can trigger them with Ellenchrome, Godo or profoto remotes
I know the Elinchrom ELB 500's are the ones that can. But sadly, Stella or should I say Scott Robert Lim was misleading for thier cLX 10 & 8 saying it would over power the sun with the Fresnel on it. It doesn't and I live in a state that has sun over 300 days a year! I've tried, short of using an ND on the lens. But, does this over power the sun in direct sunlight and no shadow. Obviously you had to use it in flash mode to get the 18K. It standard mode this is only 9K as a continuous. That's what I'm looking for!
Well for this shoot I used it in constant mode and it did a great job filling in the shadows. But no, it can’t allow taking the sun down to a 1 or 2 stop under exposure on the ambient light. But this for me worked much better that clx10 for battery life
@@kaskoPhoto But in theory at 18k lumen’s it should over power the sun when in flash mode correct? If so this is a cheaper option than purchasing a whole new set of light just for outside use. My cLX series stay inside for the studio or night work.
@@bearded_fotog well this video does show the before and after in bright sunlight… can you bring down ambient to a dramatic point? No. But as you see it does fill well. But doubling the power by using it in flash mode will gain only one more stop.
Another inspiration for me! I wanted to ask you if you do some color grading afterwards? Or do you use only default in-camera or Lightroom profiles?
I do minor tweaks in Lightroom on the iPad
Thank you for sharing your experiences, but I don't want to view into a (partly) collimated 100 W LED spotlight with a diameter of only 82 mm. Maybe you model was particulary tolerant against glare, but I expect this would be quite uncomfortable for me.
Well the smaller size fresnel was actually helpful with that. Only one time when she looked directly into the light did she have an issue. Been using these for years without complaints
If you want to use it as a flash with Leica, what trigger is best?
- Profoto Connect Nikon version, I guess manual mode only?
- Profoto Connect Leica version? But is TTL possible for this flash with Leica?
Profoto Connect Pro Leica version
Sorry, ttl is not available with any brand with this light
@@kaskoPhoto But the normal ProFoto Connect (not Pro) will work as well in manual mode?
Is there a code for the 20%. When I click on the link it just takes me to the page to buy. When I place the Stella pro in my cart and try to check out, it’s still the full price. Can you help with this one please?
It’s automatic upon checkout. Let me try it and if it isn’t working I’ll contact them on Tuesday.
Ok. It is not adding the discount. Hold off until Tuesday and I’ll get a code for you. Email me direct at john@kasko.photo
@@kaskoPhoto ok, Thank You 🙏
I emailed you
This light costs almost £1k 😮
It does. But compared to other “portable” units, it’s much much brighter and actually works