Using LED lights for wedding photography

Sep 12, 2023 By Admin in Photography

Today, we are moving things up a notch by using LED lights for wedding photography. If you’ve ever photographed a wedding, there is a good chance you used a strobe to capture the event. Maybe it was a hot shoe strobe, or maybe you set up strobes on light stands in strategic places on the floor. But you can do better with LED video lights.

I started experimenting with LED lights for weddings a while back, but I was always missing on some power. Now, I am using a couple of Zhiyun x100 LEDs (those), and let me tell you, 100 Watts makes a big difference.

Why move to LED for wedding photography

LEDs have come a long way since they first appeared. And looking at the current market offering, it has some real advantages over some other setups with strobes. There are still cases where strobes win, specifically when a ton of power is needed, but LEDs are now at a place where they have some real advantages.

Obviously, you get all the benefits of using continuous lights. LEDs have no recycle time, like you have with strobes. You can shoot at higher FPS. Or alternatively, be able to catch a good moment without worrying about flash availability. Another big advantage is the ability to control the temperature of the light and make sure it fits the atmosphere in the venue.

LED video lights are small and light

I was quite surprised at this, but in fact, a couple of Zhiyun X100 lights are not significantly bigger than three or four iPhones stacked together. This is partly because the technology has advanced, and partly because the Zhiyun x100 have a unique form factor. They are flat.

LED lights for wedding photography - small and fits in a bag

This means that they are easily packed in my wedding photography bag. But it also means that they have a low footprint when mounted on a stand. Combine this with the low weight of LEDs, and LEDs suddenly look like a very enticing option.

You don’t need cables for LED video lights

This is another thing I love about new tech. It is becoming battery-powered. You can run the lights on an internal battery, so no cables are going to the wall. (You could if you wanted to, but you don’t have to). This is particularly critical with wedding photography, because there is usually quite a bit of crowd next to the lights, and any cable going from the light to the wall is a light stand accident waiting to happen. If you’ve never had a person trip on a cable you are either very careful, very lucky, or have not ben in the business long enough.

The fan on the Zhiyun x100 is silent

I’ll admit that one of my concerns going from 60-watt LED video lights with passive cooling to a full-fledged 100-watt light was the fan noise. My previous 60-watt lights had no fan, and obviously no fan noise. But the Molus X100 has a built-in fan, and I needed to make sure that they don’t interfere with the work of the videographers. (Unlike common thinking, we still photographers actually care about your video people). The happy news is that the fan is almost silent and not audible at a wedding ceremony.

I was serious when I said that I cared about the videographers shooting the wedding. By using LED lights for shooting the wedding ceremony, I am helping them twice.

For starters, they get extra light, which, if placed properly, can be a real lifesaver for the videographers. But a nice added bonus is that they don’t get flash pops, which can interfere with both videography and sound.

LED lights for wedding photography - providing lights for video

My setup using LED lights for wedding photography

In some ways, using LED lights is a lot like using strobes – you need a stand to position the lights in a three-dimensional space. I typically use two Zhiyun x100 lights mounted on light stands on each side of the ceremony. This gives me a nice and even light. I anchor the stands to the floor using weights.

The lights are small enough to get really high, and depending on the ceremony location, I can sometimes hide them all together.

LED lights for wedding photography- bouncing of the huppah — Bouncing of the huppah

LED lights for wedding photography - from the sides — Bouncing of the huppah

Getting softer light

Just like strobes, COB LEDs generate light from a single point. The beam form is a bit different, but it is still a hard light. Depending on the distance from the newlywed, I go with one of these options:

Go “bare bulb”, and use found elements to create diffusion. This can be bouncing off a white wall, or using a Chuppah “roof” or “walls” as makeshift diffusing scrims. You’d be amazed at the amount of options you have if you just look around.
Another option is to use a small dome diffuser that you can get for the Zhiyun x100. Those are small and soft, and for many situations, they provide enough diffusion.
The last option is to use the “good old” brolly. And if I need to get far enough from the ceremony. I’ll use those.

LED lights for wedding photography - Zhiyun Molus x100 - bare — Zhiyun Molus x100 – bare

LED lights for wedding photography - Zhiyun Molus x100 - mini dome — Zhiyun Molus x100 – bare

Combing LEDs with strobes

My setup is leaning more and more towards LED now. But sometimes there is no choice and you need to add a strobe. In those cases, I will use a bracket that mounts an AD200 along with the Molus x100.

Typically, you do not need a strobe if you are using an LED setup. That said, you may want to have a backup until you get comfortable with shooting using LEDs.

The other reason to have a strobe is to mitigate bad lighting from the venue. If the venue has horrible LEDs or fluorescents, you may not be able to use LEDs at all. A badly lit venue may create banding effects on your photos. This usually happens if the venue has low quality or old technology) LEDs that are poorly dimmed.

LED lights for wedding photography - Zhiyun Molus x100 with a flash on a bracket — Zhiyun Molus x100 with a flash on a bracket

LED lights for wedding photography - Zhiyun Molus x100 with the mini dome — Zhiyun Molus x100 with a flash on a bracket

Controlling LED video lights at a wedding

If you are a wedding photographer, you know this. Sometimes, you need to control your lights’ output. With Strobes, you typically do that with a remote mounted on the camera. With LEDs, you use an App.

The Zhiyun app lets you turn the brightness up or down, and control the temperature. It also gives you the option to set the lights to zero brightness. This is extremely useful to save battery when the lights are not in use. You can place the lights, turn them on, and then set them to zero power until you need them.

PRO TIP: If you are indeed using an app to control the lights, make sure you set your phone to exclude the app from power management. It will reconnect to the x100s faster this way

Powering LED lights at weddings

The Zhiyun Molus x100 Pro and Combo kits come with an attachable battery. (The “bare “standard” kit has no battery, so get one of the other kits ). This is a medium-sized battery that would last about 30 minutes on full power. Of course, if you are only using 50% brightness, it would last an hour.

If most of your ceremonies last this long, you are good. But if you want more power (or more time), the Zhiyun x100 takes USBC power, which means you can use a power bank to power your wedding lights.

LED lights for wedding photography - a battery adds 60 more minutes — Tether Tools PD battery adds 60 minutes runtime

LED lights for wedding photography - easy battery mount — Tether Tools PD battery adds 60 minutes runtime

The setup that works for me is using the Tether Tools PD battery ($179.99) strapped to the light stand. This battery can deliver 100W continuously so that I can use the lights at full power. It is slim in shape so I can put a couple of those in my bag. Lastly, the capacity on this battery is 100 Watts, so at full power (which is also 100 watts), it adds a full hour of runtime to my kit. That puts the total runtime at 90 minutes. Now, if your wedding ceremony lasts over 90 minutes, you probably have other things to worry about, like getting hydrated. Just kidding. You can swap batteries if needed.

Conclusion

I started my migration from strobes to LED lights for wedding photography almost a year ago, and I could not be happier. Using a light that is relatively tiny, needs no cables, and never fails to trigger is a big improvement. The only issue that I had was power, and that was solved with the x100 delivering 100 watts of continuous lights. If I am counting advantages vs. strobes, let me also add temperature control and videography fellowship to the mix.

The move costs about $500 per unit (light + extra battery) and is well worth it. I would love to know if you are considering using LEDs for your wedding photography.

Student jailed over plan to display seditious banner in Hong Kong

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Digital printmaker Joshua Y’barbo opens UK SA/VS Visiting Artist and Scholar Series

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Each year, the school hosts a series of free, public talks with scholars and artists concerned with contemporary visual culture. The Visiting Artist and Scholar Series features lectures, exhibitions and workshops in cooperation with the Art History and Visual Studies program.

Surrealism and war: the life of Lee Miller

Sep 12, 2023 By Admin in Photography

Untitled [woman with hand on head], Paris, France, 1931

Entrepreneur Condé Nast discovered Miller aged 20 and she worked as a model for Vogue and Vanity Fair. That career came to an end when her image was used in an ad campaign for Kotex sanitary towels. As her son, Anthony Penrose, writes in the book’s essay: ‘Formerly no photograph of a woman had been used in this way and it outraged “respectable” society.’ Undeterred, Miller saw this as the start of a new career. ‘I would rather take a picture than be one,’ she announced, and booked her ticket to Paris.

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LYTIA And OPPO Partner To Revolutionize Computational Photography For Find N3

Sep 12, 2023 By Admin in Photography

LYTIA and OPPO Jointly Tunes Computational Photography

In a groundbreaking collaboration, Sony Semiconductor-LYTIA and OPPO have joined forces to usher in a new era of computational photography. This partnership promises to redefine the boundaries of what smartphone cameras can achieve, fusing Sony’s cutting-edge LYTIA image sensor technology with OPPO’s revolutionary Ultra Light Image Engine.

Sony Semiconductor-LYTIA, known for its innovation in image sensor development, has sent its formidable team to collaborate on this intriguing project. Together, they aim to harness the power of computational photography to create a sensor that will set new standards in the industry.

The highlight of this collaboration is the integration of LYTIA’s double-layer transistor pixel technology into OPPO’s Ultra Light Image Engine. By leveraging advanced computational techniques to manipulate light and shadow, this partnership aims to produce a new generation of sensors that promise to deliver stunning aesthetic improvements.

OPPO’s Ultra Light Image Engine has already marked a significant milestone in computational photography. Initially introduced in the Find X6 series, it has now found its way into the recently launched Find N3 Flip. This engine brings a level of natural light and shadow effects comparable to professional cameras, adding depth and dimensionality to two-dimensional photos.

LYTIA, introduced by Sony Semiconductor towards the end of 2022, is their new brand dedicated to cell phone image sensors, with product offerings like LYT900, LYT800, LYT700, LYT600, and LYT500. For this partnership, OPPO has chosen the LYT800 sensor, boasting an impressive 1/1.43″ size and 53MP resolution, which will serve as the main camera sensor for the upcoming OPPO Find N3. Additionally, reports are suggesting that the Vivo X100 series may also adopt this innovative sensor.

With this collaboration, the future of smartphone photography appears exceptionally promising. Sony Semiconductor-LYTIA and OPPO are poised to push the boundaries of what is possible, ushering in a new era of computational photography that promises to delight photography enthusiasts and smartphone users alike. Welcome to the next era of imaging innovation.

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Montville Twp Commemorates 9/11 and Unveils New 9/11 Memorial Sculpture

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MONTVILLE, NJ – A somber crowd met on Sept. 11 to commemorate the victims of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks at the Freedom Plaza in the Community Park in Montville.

7 of the Best Artworks of Armory Week 2023, From Arresting Paintings by a 26-Year-Old Instragram Phenom to Elevated Interpretations of Outdoor Recliners

Sep 11, 2023 By Admin in Art World News

In the flurry of Armory Week, it’s easy for even the most dedicated fairgoer to miss something. That why Artnet News staffers have compiled a compendium of notable works from the whirlwind week. While this year’s fare across the New York art fairs was heavy on painting, there were standouts in other media as well, from painted chaise longues to mixed-media works in the style of Social Realism. Without further delay, here are our favorites from Armory Week 2023…

**Alice Baber, The Green Reed (1966)**

Alice Baber, The Green Reed (1966). ©Estate of Alice Baber. Image courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery.

Showing at: Berry Campbell Gallery at the Armory Show

Price: $200,000

Why You Should Pay Attention: “Things are abuzz,” Berry Campbell gallery co-owner Christine Berry told Artnet News on the VIP opening day of Armory Show, where, among other sales, the gallery counted that of Alice Baber’s vibrant, lush painting The Green Reed (1966), which sold for $200,000. Baber’s work could also be seen at Luxembourg’s booth at Independent 20th Century, which took place downtown.

Baber was a founding member of the artist cooperative March Gallery along with Wilfrid Zogbaum and Elaine de Kooning, and had her first solo show at March Gallery in 1958. It was around that time that Baber found her mature style, described by Grace Glueck for the New York Times: “Disks and puffs of pure bright color drift lyrically over a white field toward a gentle vortex.” Critic Roberta Smith remarked in Artforum that Baber’s iconic style was “soft and static, like hazy clouds.”

According to one essay, “Baber once famously described her intent as looking for a ‘way to get the light moving across the whole thing.’ To a large degree, she succeeded. Light streams across her paintings, seemingly from different directions at once, while her cloud-like shapes appear to float across the canvas.”

Still, Baber’s work was largely overlooked during her lifetime and only in recent years has the art market started paying attention. The timing was a plus for Campbell and Berry, who have the largest cache of works from Baber’s estate. “So far, so good,” Berry said.

At auction, the current record for a work by Baber is $275,000, paid for Axe In The Grove (1966), sold at John Moran in February of this year and far surpassing the high estimate of $70,000.

Up Next: Berry Campbell will mount a solo show of the artist’s work in 2024.

—Eileen Kinsella

Winfred Rembert, Jazz Singer (2002)

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Winfred Rembert, Jazz Singer (2002). Courtesy of James Barron.

Showing at: James Barron’s booth at Independent 20th Century

Price: $275,000

Why You Should Pay Attention: This work depicts one of Rembert’s more joyful memories of his upbringing in Cuthbert, Georgia. “My memory of jazz was of a dark place, never overcrowded, but almost full, lots of smoking and drinking and mellow moods, no dancing. Everybody just mostly laid back, sippin’ on their drinks, and puffin’ on their cigarettes,” he wrote in his memoir.

James Barron’s selection of work by the artist, who passed away in 2021, surveyed both Rembert’s joy and suffering, as he was incarcerated in Georgia for five years after stealing a car to avoid his own lynching. Later in life, he depicted scenes from both his time on chain gangs and of his life before through leather-based paintings, created with skills he learned while in prison.

Since his death, Rembert’s work, both in his fine art career and his writing, has gained an increasing amount of attention. Last year, he joined the small circle of people who have posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize, which he was awarded for his aforementioned memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South. The market for Rembert’s leather-based paintings has exploded in the past few years as well, as was reported in The Art Detective. Works have recently been selling in the low six-figures, whereas they had been sold for just $35,000 a few years prior.

This February, Rembert’s work made its auction record at Christie’s New York, where The Black Cat sold for $300,000 over its estimate of $150,000 to $200,000.

—Annie Armstrong

Alanis Forde, Social Gathering (2023)

Alanis Forde, Social Gathering (2023). Courtesy of the artist and Filo Sofi Arts, New York.

Showing at: Filo Sofi Arts, New York at Spring Break Art Show

Price: This $8,000 canvas sold opening day to a collector in Germany who had only seen the work online.

Why You Should Pay Attention: Filo Sofi’s Gabrielle Aruta discovered 26-year-old Forde, who hails from Barbados, via Instagram in 2021, and arranged a studio visit during the artist’s 2022 residency with ArtLeadHer, at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Forde’s first outing with the gallery came at a pop-up group show in Marfa, Texas, in May 2022, during the Marfa Invitational, where collectors quickly snapped up both of her works in the exhibition.

“What draws me to Alanis’s work is how developed and visually arresting her aesthetic voice has become over the past three years,” Aruta told Artnet News. “Her development of the character ‘Bubbles,’ covered in blue pointillistic dots, serves as her proxy and speaks to a desire for representation within and escape from what she calls the ‘Tropical Gaze.’”

Up Next: The artist will be one of four women artists in “Cozy: Comfortable In My Skin,” which Berlin’s Gallery OCA will present at London’s Cromwell Place during Frieze week (October 11–15), and Filo Sofi Arts plans to bring her to Prizm Art Fair during Miami Art Week in December.

—Sarah Cascone

Lydia Blakeley, Daily Affirmation (2022)

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Lydia Blakeley, Daily Affirmation (2022). Courtesy of Niru Ratnam Gallery.

Showing at: Niru Ratnam booth in the Presents section at the Armory Show

Prices: Paintings ranged from $2,000 to $20,000, and painted lounge chairs were $9,000 each. All paintings sold during the fair, Daily Affirmation for $20,000.

Why You Should Pay Attention: The emerging British artist is quickly gaining curatorial and market attention. A college dropout, Blakeley, 40, returned to school after working in retail. A 2019 graduate of the prestigious Goldsmiths art school in London, she’s had 10 solo shows in six years. In 2021, she was included in a trendsetting group show, “Mixing It Up: Painting Today” at Hayward Gallery, whose 31 participants included today’s in-demand painters Jade Fadojutimi, Lisa Brice, Alison Katz, and Rachel Jones. Her deftly executed figurative works explore banality with a healthy dose of irony and address the multiple realities of contemporary existence.

Up Next: The Yorkshire-based artist has two solo exhibitions on the horizon: one at Bureau Bertoli in Lausanne, Switzerland, later this year and another at Tabula Rasa in Beijing in 2024.

—Katya Kazakina

**John Divola, Zuma #3 (1977)**

Showing at: Yancey Richardson Gallery at the Armory Show

Price: $24,000

Why You Should Pay Attention: Amid so much figurative painting at The Armory, Divola’s large-scale color photography with haunting lighting showing a seascape through the view of an abandoned property in Zuma Beach, Malibu, was a refreshing change of pace.

In the late 1970s, Divola happened upon an abandoned property in Zuma and between 1977–1978, he observed, augmented, and photographed this building. The structure was repeatedly burned and damaged in various ways by the local fire department, which used it for training exercises and practice drills. The artist himself also made additions of paint and graffiti, and these marks were augmented by others’ vandalism, decay from natural elements, and the passage of time.

Yancey Richardson just wrapped a solo exhibition titled “Swimming Drunk” that included both “Zuma” and “Daybreak”—the two photographic series that represent the breadth of the artist’s more-than-40-year career.

Both series are a result of Divola’s engagement with abandoned buildings, and his interest in transforming a situation through photography.

Up Next: Look for Divola’s work at the upcoming edition of Paris Photo. Divola is also leading a small, two-day workshop, timed to the fair, offering photographers and visual artists the opportunity to engage first-hand with the photographer. Conversations will also consider core issues related to photography’s increasingly hybridized nature.

—Eileen Kinsella

**Ena Swansea, service entrance to the Charlotte Country Club (2022)**

Ena Swansea, service entrance to the Charlotte Country Club (2022). Courtesy Ben Brown Fine Arts.

Showing at: Ben Brown Fine Arts at the Galleries section of the Armory Show

Price: $45,000

Why You Should Pay Attention: The veteran painter’s distinct style often mingles the real and the imagined, figurative and abstract. Swansea is known for her dreamy or ecstatic landscapes, often populated with a solitary human figure. Her painting at the Armory Show depicts a man of color in a chef’s hat walking through a lush garden of green hedges and pink trees. A dusting of snow on the southern foliage gives a surreal edge to the scene, the white powder echoing the pristine garb of the man, who enters the elite club from the back door. The painting is set near Swansea’s real childhood home near the country club in Charlotte, North Carolina; the man is invented. The scene feels subtly political, topical yet non-specific, and suggestive of the racial tensions gripping the country.

—Katya Kazakina

Narsiso Martinez, Checker Leading The Crowd (2023)

Narsiso Martinez, Checker Leading the Crowd (2023). Image courtesy of the Artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles. © 2023 Narsiso Martinez Photo © 2023 Yubo Dong; photo credit @ofphotostudio Yubo Dong.

Showing at: Charlie James Gallery at the Armory Show

Prices: $10,800 to $28,500

Why You Should Pay Attention: The booth was immediately sold out, with buyers including two museums.

This is the first solo presentation of works by Narsiso Martinez in New York City. His drawings and mixed media installations include multi-figure compositions set amid agricultural landscapes and are drawn from his own experience as a farmworker.

The artist focuses on the unseen people who performing the labor needed to fill produce sections of supermarkets and restaurant kitchens all over the world. Martinez’s portraits of farmworkers are created on discarded produce boxes collected from grocery stores. His style clearly shows the influence of 1930s-era Social Realism and is heightened through the use of found materials.

A pair of large-scale pieces titled Essential Since 2013 and Essential Since 2004 feature gold leaf fragments of QR codes taken from the subjects’ ID cards, used in the fields by “checkers” who measure and track the harvests for each worker.

Up Next: A solo show at the Albright Knox Art Gallery Buffalo opening in December and running through April 2024.

—Eileen Kinsella

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Arts council holds open house for exhibit

Sep 11, 2023 By Admin in Native

OLEAN — An opening reception will be held this Saturday for the current Tri-County Arts Council exhibit, “2023 Southern Tier Biennial A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art,” featuring works from over 35 artists from the Southern Tier.

Catering and dessert will be provided by the Century Manor Grillhouse, the reception is a special time from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, at the TCAC building, 110 W. State St., Olean.

Since 2005, the Southern Tier Biennial has given rural artists the opportunity to take part in a juried professional art competition and gallery show. Every two years, artists from across New York state’s Southern Tier region submit their work to be juried by a new panel of top art professionals. The result is a stunning array of work showing the vitality of the visual arts in rural New York.

2023 Southern Tier Biennial A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art will be running from Sept. 16 to Nov. 4. This year, 51 works of art from 36 artists were chosen from the 157 artists and over 400 pieces entered.

The artists in the STB are Anne Auld, Barbara Behrmann, Tammy Renée Brackett, Chloe Bryant, Eva Capobianco, Frank Chang, Paul Cwikla, Victoria Eckley-Brown, Nancy Nixon Ensign, Jodie Estes, Hans Gindlesberger, Lindsey Glover, Ed Green, Marshall Green, Aaron Harrison, Katelyn Heins, David Higgins, Andrea Kastner, Jimmy Keller, Madison LaVallee, Barbara Mink, Gabe Morton-Cook, Timothy Pauszek, Brian Payne, Jim Root, Michelle Schleider, Laura Jaen Smith, Joe Sorci, Cesilia Tucker, Kari Varner, Jane Walker, Chris Walters, Anna Warfield, Rob Whitcomb, Todd Wolfe and Glenn Zweygardt.

The STB is presented by the Tri-County Arts Council and the Cattaraugus Regional Community Foundation, made possible by an endowment from the estate of F. Donald Kenney.

“The Southern Tier Biennial was founded in 2003 with a bequest by Olean native, philanthropist, and art lover F. Donald Kenney, managed through the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, to create an opportunity for regional artists to exhibit in a professional gallery and be seen by jurors that can help further an artist’s career,” said Sean Huntington, STB exhibition coordinator.

“Every two years, the Southern Tier Biennial gives us a glimpse into the wonderful creative talent that this region has to offer,” he said. “It’s truly an incredible show. I encourage every visual artist, including those working in craft media, to apply.”

In addition to the opportunity to show their work, accepted artists have the chance to win one of five awards totaling $5,250 — $3,000 to the Best of Show winner ($1,000 cash and $2,000 stipend towards a solo show in fall 2024 at the TCAC); a $750 Juror’s Choice Award; and $500 for three Honorable Mention winners.

Each biennial is juried by new jurors, this year’s jurors are Andrea Alvarez, assistant curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) in Buffalo; Judy Barie, director of the Chautauqua Visual Arts Galleries in the Chautauqua Institution; and Tullis Johnson, curator and manager of exhibitions and collections at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo.

For more information visit www.southerntierbiennial.com or call (716) 372-7455. The Tri County Arts Council, 110 W. State St., Olean, is always adding artists to Artist Market, and is open to the public noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday.

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