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By now it should be clear that I’m quite a fan of video lights for the romantic portrait session with a couple. The Incandescent WB of the video light usually matches the existing light fairly well. Because video light has a rapid fall-off in light intensity to the edges of the beam, it doesn’t “flatten” out the light like bounce flash<\/a> would. In addition, the video light can seem quite natural in context of the existing light, and not even look like additional lighting. Somehow the light just appears to be great right there.<\/p>\n Here are two images from the\u00a0wedding at Shadowbrook, NJ<\/a>, where I had my assistant hold up an LED video light to help light the couple. (It’s the same wedding where I used the\u00a0black foamie thing during the indoor ceremony\u00a0to bounce the flash forward<\/a> without getting that hard direct flash look.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n image details:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n image details:<\/strong><\/p>\n I have both the Lowel ID-Light<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>)\u00a0and two LED video lights. Even though\u00a0the Lowel ID-light is a better tool<\/a>, the\u00a0LED video light is my first choice<\/a>\u00a0for a quick-grab, always-ready light. LED video lights are compact, and use AA batteries. Easy to slip into your camera bag.<\/p>\n Now, if I had wanted to ease the contrast a bit, and bring in more shadow detail, it would be a simple matter of bouncing my on-camera flash behind me. But it would have to be with the FEC turned way down to -3EV so that it just acts as a fill light. The flash would also have to be gelled with a CTS or CTO gel<\/a> then to not bring in a blue tint to the fill-light.<\/p>\n With the romantic portrait session at a wedding<\/a>, I like to mix it up – some available light (if there is enough), some bounce flash, and some video light … or a mix of any of these. We have options.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Romantic wedding portraits with video light By now it should be clear that I’m quite a fan of video lights for the romantic portrait session with a couple. The Incandescent WB of the video light usually matches the existing light fairly well. Because video light has a rapid fall-off in light intensity to the edges Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45],"tags":[878,276,275],"yst_prominent_words":[9379,3219,6418,6356,1477,6416,1842,3846,6353,3544,3015,3014,5945,4151,9376,9352,7811,6422,6417,3021],"class_list":{"0":"post-9187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-video-light","8":"category-wedding-photography","9":"tag-new-jersey-wedding-photographer","10":"tag-video-light-for-wedding-photography","11":"tag-wedding-portraits","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43766,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions\/43766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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