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Lighting a background with Rotolights

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rollsman44

Well-known member
I have always uses a strobe to light the background in my portrait shots. The situation I have coming up is I am shooting young kids and the Speedlight will be in the way. So, I have 2 Rotolights the Orig. ones and was thinking of using them on a light stand off to the side of the background and angle them to light the background. I have a Painted background . Any suggestions to what I have in mind? thanks
 
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JaapD

Member
A Speedlight will easily outpower a Rotolight. The original Rotolights aren't that powerfull, only the Neo3 got significant more light output. Don't expect much luminosity from the original ones at, let's say, 1/125 sec shutter speed.

Cheers,
JaapD
 
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daz7

Active member
I do not know how important the faithful colour reproduction to you is, but personally, I would stay away of any LED lights for anything other than quick shots for web. LED lighting gives me a hard time correcting colour, every time. There are strange green or purple spikes, colours that look washed up and I feel like fighting an uphill battle when working on such shots.
Maybe, for your project, the colour accuracy is not important at all, then OK, it should be fine.
 
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