{"id":36383,"date":"2016-10-17T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T01:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=36383"},"modified":"2020-07-14T00:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T04:38:37","slug":"using-the-profoto-b1-modeling-lamp-as-a-video-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/using-the-profoto-b1-modeling-lamp-as-a-video-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Profoto B1 modeling lamp as a video light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Using the Profoto B1 modeling lamp as a video light<\/h1>\n

Looking through the past articles on this blog, you’ll notice that I love using a video light for low-light photograph<\/a>y. A video light adds that sense of drama to portraits, and very often blends better with the existing ambient light, than flash would.<\/p>\n

Lately though, I haven’t bothered to bring a video light to weddings for the romantic portraits – I already have the Profoto B1 there with a substantial enough modeling light! Less gear to carry with me! Since I rely heavily on my Profoto B1 flashes<\/a>\u00a0(B&H<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/em>), I already have them on hand.<\/p>\n

To show you how good the light from this looks (with the softbox still attached, but the baffle removed), here are a few images of Anelisa<\/a>, taken during a Photo Walk in New York<\/a>. We were using the flash and softbox earlier on, but as the sun disappeared, the light was getting lower, and there wasn’t a colorful sky to use as a backdrop – just the city lights. With the White Balance set to 3100K in fine-tuning the RAW file in post-processing.<\/p>\n

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In this case, with the light reflecting off the sides of the interior of the softbox, the light becomes a somewhat larger light source with the shadows slightly less hard.<\/p>\n

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Camera settings and photo gear used<\/h2>\n