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Digital
Photography Lighting equipment comes in two flavors: Continuous (flood) Lighting and Flash (strobe) Lighting . For
most digital studio lighting we recommend continuous lighting.
Continuous lighting works with all digital cameras while
flash lighting requires semi-pro or professional digital
cameras that provide "external flash triggering".
Continuous lighting is easy to master, particularly with the white
balance control of modern digital cameras. With continuous lighting WYSIWYG, what you see in the viewfinder (LCD
display) is what you get. We only recommend using
flash lighting for portrait imaging. For more specifics see
our page
Continuous vs.
Flash.
NOTE: The flash incorporated on
digital cameras will not produce professional results.
 Continuous
lighting comes in a variety of flavors from "cool
lites" that use special flicker free compact fluorescent
bulbs to basic Quartz Halogen bulb and
reflector units like our ALZO 250 kits. We typically recommend continuous lighting for very small
to medium/large subjects. Our ALZO "cool Lite" continuous
light kits are very popular for tent illumination and
photographing food, cosmetics, biology
imaging and for those who are concerned about the
environment.
Although
flash lighting has been favored by portrait and film
photographers, it is more difficult than continuous
lighting because exposure control is performed manually and
you will have many trial and error images and lighting
configurations to optimize the light on the subject. In all
flash lighting a Flash Meter is highly recommended.
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Flash
Lighting:
Flash lighting is more difficult
than continuous lighting because you will have many trial and error
configurations to optimize the lighting.
Flash lights are only recommended for portrait
photography. For more specifics see our page
