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Originally Posted by isaiahbrink
Overused in this context means that the vast majority of photographers use strobes for their lighting to the point where to be creative, one would need to use continous light. At least IMO.
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Sorry, still not getting it. Except for certain technical situations, there is little, if anything about an image that would indicate whether the light was continuous or momentary.
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Originally Posted by isaiahbrink
Look up George Hurrell, not many strobes used at all.
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Hurrell's images look the way that they do primarily for three reasons. (1) Careful lighting. This is where the fact that he used hot lights comes in to play. What-you-see-is-what-you-get. This is entirely doable with strobes. if you want. It just takes a little longer of you are going to be picky about the minute details. (2) The type of modifiers on the lights. He didn't use softboxes like so many photographers do today. He used dishes and reflectors and produced a much harder style of lighting. There is absolutely nothing preventing anyone from using these types of light modifiers on strobes to get the same quality of light. (3) Heavy "photoshopping", which in his day meant shooting on 4x5 or 8x10 and hand retouching the negative with etching, pencil and powdered graphite to hide the inevitable flaws shown by his preferred lighting style, something that I believe does not fit your "get it right in the camera" philosophy from the "photographer vs. photoshoppers" thread.
However, at the end of the day, a photographer who understands light can create the same images with strobes or hot lights, with no visible difference in the final results. The difference will be in choosing one over the other for ease of use for the particular application, or working style.
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Originally Posted by isaiahbrink
But availble light while continous in nature, usually is reffered to it as that, availble, not continous nor strobe light.
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Yes, of course. But your comment about strobes being over used compared to continuous, when they really don't have much visual difference, made me stop to consider what other things you might have meant, as strobe/continuous and available certainly have different characteristics.