Real strong continuous lights or strobes.....

[M DeM]

Howdy folks-

I'm hoping to do both videography and photography. Well, strobes obviously aren't going to do much good for videography, so I'm wondering about continuous light for photos.

I know it'd have to be a hell of an intense light. But what about a rig like this for photos too?

 

[tomfcrist]

Bigblue Dive Lights

 

[tbone1004]

@Bobby has put out some good info on those using his video lights for photography.
Strobe vs Video Light for Still Photography | Underwater Light Dude

basically, strobes will always be brighter, but obviously useless for video. If you choose to spend more time on videography, then I would use video lights. They'll make your pictures better, just not as good as a strobe. Keep in mind the person who wrote the article is a professional u/w photographer

 

[tomfcrist]

And if you bump up to those badass 33,000 lumen lights, you are starting to cook with bacon grease.

 

[tbone1004]

And if you bump up to those badass 33,000 lumen lights, you are starting to cook with bacon grease.

for about a minute or two, then they drop back down to reasonable outputs. Big Blue lights average about half of their claimed output during their burn on high. 16,000 is still a mc****ton of output, just make sure you're comparing apples to apples when buying because the price/burntime/output they claim is very much too good to be true.

 

[M DeM]

@Bobby has put out some good info on those using his video lights for photography.
Strobe vs Video Light for Still Photography | Underwater Light Dude

basically, strobes will always be brighter, but obviously useless for video. If you choose to spend more time on videography, then I would use video lights. They'll make your pictures better, just not as good as a strobe. Keep in mind the person who wrote the article is a professional u/w photographer

Thanks! Will check it out.

 

[M DeM]

Bigblue Dive Lights

That price tag. Ouch. But 33,000 lumens!

 

[tbone1004]

That price tag. Ouch. But 33,000 lumens!

it's "real" output is 16,000 or so lumens, which is still a **** ton, but the price is damn good for what it is

 

[Chris Ross]

you may get enough light but a lot of things that can, will swim off if you shine something that bright on them, the guy is testing them in a cave so shooting rock and other divers.

 

[tursiops]

I was on a liveaboard with a guy with really bright video lights and no strobe. I ended up avoiding night dives because it was so obnoxious.