{"id":37615,"date":"2017-02-20T21:08:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=37615"},"modified":"2020-07-04T07:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T11:01:29","slug":"stella-pro-5000-2000-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/stella-pro-5000-2000-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella Pro 5000 & 2000 video light review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stella Pro 5000 & 2000 video light review – continuous lighting kit<\/h1>\n

My friend Kevin, or as his friends call him, Kevin, brought along his new Light & Motion Stella Pro 225 \u00a03-Light Kit<\/a>\u00a0 (B&H<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/em>) to the studio for us to play with. The\u00a0Stella Pro 5000 video light is\u00a0powerful enough that you can use a softbox with it\u00a0when shooting indoors. \u00a0Where continuous lights really shine, is in how\u00a0they allow you to adjust your lights in a WYSIWYG way. \u00a0What you see is what you get – that’s just how continuous lights work. That\u00a0aspect makes\u00a0video lights ideal\u00a0when working with\u00a0contrasty light where your subject’s exact positioning and pose are\u00a0critical, as in the photo above. You can more easily fine-tune a model’s pose when you use continuous lighting, compared to flash.<\/p>\n

The Stella Pro 225 \u00a03-Light Kit<\/a> (B&H<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/em>),\u00a0consists of\u00a0three daylight balanced video lights:<\/p>\n

Stella Pro 5000 LED Light – 5000 lumen at max
\n2 x Stella 2000 LED Lights – 2000 lumen at max
\n3 x Light Modifier Kits
\n3 x Light Stands and Rolling Case<\/p>\n

The Stella Pro 225 \u00a03-Light Kit<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0everything you need for a 3-point lighting set up!\u00a0Not only are they powerful, and easy to set up and use – the specification of these video lights are quite impressive. The Stella 2000 and 5000 spLEDs are waterproof to a depth of 100 meters (328 ft), and impact resistant to 1 meter (3.3 ft). Since they are a single-point light source, there is no problem with multiple shadows that you have with\u00a0multi-dot light sources.\u00a0Integrated rechargeable Li-ion batteries provide 50-415 minutes (Stella 2000), and90-375 minutes (Stella 5000) of cord-free operation.<\/p>\n

What should make portrait photographers happy is that they\u00a0are flicker-free, and\u00a0have high\u00a0ratings of 93 TLCI \/ 90 CRI. These figures\u00a0indicate that\u00a0these lights give a more pure white with less of a discontinuous spectrum. This is especially important if you want to get good skin tones. They also have regulated lumen output – which means that the lights do not fade during use.<\/p>\n

We had Alix as our model for the day. (Alix:\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\/ IMDB<\/a>.<\/em>) We started out with portraits of her, using a softbox as the main light. But that looked just like a portrait with flash and a softbox.\u00a0I wanted something more dramatic than that.\u00a0Here we aimed for a look where there is just a shaft of light shining on our model – lighting that hunts at Hollywood Glamor lighting, but even more dramatic and mysterious.<\/p>\n

We aimed the larger Stella video light between two V-flats to give this sliver of light. The other two lights were placed behind-and-to-the-side of Alix to give rim lighting and with that, some separation from the darker background.<\/p>\n

The pull-back shots will show the setup more clearly:<\/p>\n

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Camera settings & photo gear used during this\u00a0part of the\u00a0photo session<\/h2>\n