First studio night of the year!!!

Boy did I miss studio nights. I didn’t realize how much I missed them until we had like a month off from them for the holidays. But now they are back and everything is awesome!

For this studio night we worked with the amazing Rimia, a model and dancer. We also tried out a new continuous lighting setup, which was pretty cool. But if you look at the pictures you will see a little bit of banding (horizontal or vertical lines). This is a lighting + shutter issue that you can run into with continuous lights.

LED panels use PWM (pulse width modulation) to control brightness. Which means they are flickering very fast – too fast for your eyes to pick up but not your cameras sensor. Basically it’s a sync issue between my shutter speed and the lighting we used. So next time I need to lower my shutter speed.

Even with that small issue this was a really cool shoot. Hope you enjoy the pics!