Mono-Light Photography

Video Transcript

"Now the light that I have chosen to use in my studio, it is called a mono-light. For me the difference between a mono-light and the traditional studio strobe lights is that a mono-light, it carries everything it needs right here in the light, which is why it is called mono-light, because you really only need the one piece of equipment. Normal lights, which I don't have here to show you have, they have separate heads so they have this part of the lights and then they basically just have a plug that runs into a power pack that is about the size of a car battery that has a place for you to usually plug in three or four lights and then you have to use that power pack to control how much power is being divided and sent to each lighting head. Where on here, I control how much light is being sent into this lighting head directly here on the back, I can also control other things like whether or not this is the master light or the slave light and if I want the modeling light on or off, my test light and then this lever just controls how much power I am giving to this light. I personally prefer the mono-light because you don't have that heavy power pack that you need to carry around with you and it also eliminates the number of cords that are running across your room because you can plug one of these lights into one side of your room and the other light into the other side and your clients don't have anything to trip over."