lose the contouring created by the side light and be left with only a backlight
or highlighting effect.Studio Strobe.
Most professional photographers choose to do their studio work with day-
light-balanced studio strobes. These are cool working, portable, and run on
household current—or, with the addition of a battery supply, you can use
them outside the studio, too. Selecting units equipped with modeling lights
(continuous quartz-halogen bulbs that simulate the effect of the flash itself)
will help you to visually gauge the effect you are creating and make it easier
to focus.
Studiostrobesareoftwovarieties:monolightsandpower-packkits.Mono-
lights are self-contained; they contain light triggers that fire the strobe when
theysensethelightofanotherstrobe,sotheycanbeusedveryfarapart,mak-
ing them good for location lighting or large rooms. Power-pack systems ac-
cept multiple strobe heads—up to four heads can usually be plugged into a
single pack. This type of system is most often used in studios, though, since
TYPES OF LIGHT SOURCES 654-13(left), 4-14(right). Both images
were shot at^1 / 200 second at f/7.1. Notice
how the addition of flash fill in the sec-
ond image does not overpower the pat-
tern created by the natural light. It
simply makes the shadows less intense.