Dramatic Lighting Setups for Photographing Athletes

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Hernan Rodriguez is a Los Angeles-based celebrity portrait photographer with experience photographing some of the world's best athletes. He has received numerous international photography awards for his work, which he considers a fusion of art and photography.

In this video, Hernan is using the compact Solix LED light. Designed with powerful high-end LEDs, the Solix’s continuous daylight-balanced output eliminates the guesswork in lighting.

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LED lights are now the pushed big thing instead of strobes. If your the model, you have an extremely bright light CONTINUALLY in your eyes/vision versus a fraction of a second xenon burst which is then over. I've seen so many photoshoots where the model struggles to keep their eyes open with these LED's. Some of these multi light, LED set ups are brutal. Great for product but not so sure for people. They do have their place. I'll stick with strobes. Just my opinion.

[robertaltman]

LED's are still too dim- shooting at ISO 500 versus 50-64 will simply not give you the optimal RAW files to tweak. When/if LED's are bright enough they will be blinding to the talent!! OK for video - but I'll stick to strobes for still shots...