Godox has announced a bi-color version of its M600D studio light, launched late last year. The new Knowled M600Bi has a touchscreen LED display, a Bowens mounted reflector, a variety of lighting effects, and cooling fan noise cancellation.
If you’ve decided to take the next step in your photographic lighting and purchase some studio strobes, then you will need to ask some questions about what kind of images you’ll be creating in the studio and what the best lighting for those particular subjects is.
Well-known portrait photographer and YouTuber Manny Ortiz made this 5.5-minute video in which he shares his go-to beauty lighting setup that guarantees stunning and flattering studio portraits time and time again.
Taking photos of white subjects on white backgrounds or black subjects on black backgrounds is a skill that requires photographers to skillfully bend light in various ways. Photographer Zach Sutton has shared tips on what works best in each scenario.
Profoto has updated its Pro-10 studio pack to the Pro-11 with a few under-the-hood upgrades like a new set of sounds, a new motherboard, and better short circuit protection, but the main new feature is support for AirX, the company's Bluetooth sync tech that allows smartphones to use strobes.
Elinchrom has released an app for iOS that allows for control of up to 20 strobes through your iPhone or iPad. Any Elinchrom strobe that supports and is connected to the Elinchrom Bridge can be controlled from the app.
Profoto has announced the new C1 and C1 Plus, the company's first studio lights for smartphone photographers.
Okay, it's probably safe to say that ONLY photography nerds and photo websites will notice this, but for those of us who fit into those two categories the posters below sit somewhere between amusing and annoying.
You see, the Expendables 3 promo posters revealed recently feature studio lights in the frame because, well, they give the photos a certain 'star studded' feel. The problem is, the lights are frequently pointless and sometimes look like they're lighting up something that is actually in shadow.