Interested in taking a photograph with similar lighting as in the image below? Yea... I thought you might be. Modeling lights were used in this shot and you can learn all about it here! As seen on Phlearn, "Most modern strobe lights will come with modeling lights. These are
basically just lightbulbs made to mimic the light of a strobe. Although
we focus on using the modeling lights that are a part of strobes in this
video, you can use traditional lights as well.
The advantage to using modeling lights as opposed to strobes is that you see exactly what you are going to get, there is not guess work. Using gels on your lights can be a ver effective way to add interest to an image. For this shoot, I wanted to shoot at f/1.4 and I didn’t mind using a slower shutter speed like 1/20 sec. This combination will result in a very shallow depth of field as well as motion blur. Keep that in mind as you shoot, and make sure that is acceptable, in this case that is what we desired". (Phlearn, web) Be sure to check out the video below:
01. Nance, Aaron. "Unleash the Power of Modeling Lights!" Phlearn. N.p., 14 Nov. 2012. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.