DIY Photography LED Studio Lights for Portraits & Headshots – DIY Kino Flo Lights – Diy Lighting
DIY Photography Tip: This is an easy to build 4 light portrait lighting set-up with LED lights. This DIY Photo studio lighting set-up made from LED shop lights is an awesome alternative to more expensive studio lights or the really expensive Kino Flo lights.
If you are shooting headshots or portraits the DIY LED lights are lighter in weight, easier to build, cost less, last longer, don’t flicker, stay cooler and use less electricity! And best of all they produce incredible light for shooting portraits or headshots. How awesome is that?
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Thanks Joe.
Great video, but I've never been a fan of the catchlights, even the Peter Hurley ones make subjects look like aliens.
Are LEDs good for still photographing for outdoor fill?
Thank you so much for this awesome video! I have my lights on order, and I'm putting my husband to work this weekend. He, too, was wowed with the awesomeness of your video and your DIY skills after watching this and your basement studio video.
I LOVE YOUR CREATIVITY Joe !
it's quite impressive how your presentation/video quality has improved over the years! You are also looking a lot better weight/style-wise. Keep it up, this is easily one of my favorite channels.
CRI?
Just wondering if you still use these Joe? I'm thinking of using them again, but adding a soft diffusion material in front of them.
Do you know of any LED T8 tubes that don't flicker on video? I have a set up similar to your T8 build with florescent bulbs, but I want to replace them with LED bulbs without flicker. I've tried a few, but they all have flickered on video. Can you help?
Hi joe. You are doing amazing work. My favourite person to learn lighting. Need your expert advice to build an ecommerce product photography studio. I am planning to invest in godox sk400 II strobes. Would that be a good investment? Or if you can suggest something it would be a great help.
Awaiting your response.
Thank you sir! You're a gentleman and scholar!
hi joe
there are some led lights from neewer or yongnuo who have more leds/lightpower and are more practical i would guess if i look at the specs…
i am thginkimg about to buy the neewer led kit with 3 Neewer 660 bi-color lights or 2 of the Yongnuo YN-600L II.
i would love to hear your opinion on what I should buy 😉
thanx very much
You are deserving of your fame and good fortune. Thank you for being a teacher.
Hey Joe, thanks for your amazing videos. I have watched about 20 and the info is unprecedented. I have read some reviews on Amazon about this light and a competitors version. I have a question: is 2 fixtures bright enough (one placed on each side, forward facing as front key lights) for lighting a model's face? The reviews said they were bright as hell and I wondered why you chose to attach 2 together for front lights. Also, do they buzz at all? One competitors version of the identical light got horrible reviews about loud buzzing. I'm planning to do some video lighting as well and it would be an issue. Thanks for any info you can provide.
Joe this is perfect. I have already ordered some of the lights and can't wait to build my new set up. thanks
Sir, most of the led bulbs flickers at 1/100 sec time, so we can't change the shutter speed. We are bound to use 1/100 sec. or 1/50 sec. shutter speed. Is there anyway we can break this problem while using LED lights for shooting, please Sir make a video tutorial on this. Many of like me are waiting for a solution of this problem.
I can't thank you enough. I was pricing out something similar from Amazon and B&H You saved me several hundreds of dollars. I found the lights on Amazon for $70 (Prime is a wonderful thing) and found some Neewer stands for $30 for a pair. Along with $5.50 at Lowes… Two lights under $150. Here's a picture -> https://photos.app.goo.gl/3QbNKnVNzOiixoMl1
Amazing video. Just love the idea of making the LED lights modifiers. Thanks a lot, Joe. Love from India.
I wonder why they don't flicker when powered by AC. Mine all flicker. Maybe there is a DC power supply in the housing on these from LOA. Guess I will have to take one apart if I can find those exact units. Been wanting to try this for a while.
If you use Honeywell's shop lights, you can connect 2 shop lights together with included cables instead of splicing wires together as you mentioned. The only downside of Honeywell's lights are CRI is 80 instead of 85 for the ones you used. I appreciated your simple design, Joe.
Do you live in Philly?
This could be fun.
very cool. I love DIY.
Another exceptional video as usual, Joe. Is there any reason why I can’t use speedlights as rim and hair lights along with these LEDs as my main lights?
Joe thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise in this area, if you don't know the CRI of the leds is that a factor and do you have to be concerned about contamination with different sources of light temperature particularly if you lower your shutter speeds?
Hey Joe! Question. Have you ever experienced the bulb going out as soon as you assembled ? I patiently put this all together and then excitedly turned on the first light and it flickered a bunch and then popped and blew out right away 🙁 it was plugged into a surge protector. I know you're not an electrician but do you think the drilling could have caused damage to the bulb? Now I'm nervous to plug in the other lights. So bummed!
Just in the process of building my studio here in the UK. So was looking at lighting on a budget, what do you think of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biard-Panel-Light-1200mm-Natural/dp/B071DSSDPN/ref=pd_sbs_201_9?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=58PE4Y6EBR9YH7423VEZ or would you recommend the tubes to give the lines in the subjects eyes??
Where do get the light stands? Love your videos.
Any idea if these lights would do the trick – https://www.amazon.ca/MW-LED-Daylight-Certified-Lighting/dp/B0743NKZ5L/ref=cm_wl_huc_item – ? Seems hard to find options in Canada for 4500 lumens, 5000K LED shop lights. The ones in the link are rated to 25,000 hours vs 50,000 for the 'Lights of America' brand. For other Canadians looking, I found some other options here: http://www.tscstores.com/SHOPLIGHT-LED-48-40W-P42144.aspx#.WZUR-1GGMuU – but I think they only deliver to the store. So, you'd need to be near one or drive out to it.
Brilliant.
Great idea from great Joe. Love from India.
finally someone convinced me to use LED lights, thanks a lot to you
great idea. 2 ideas. 1)use regular shop fixtures and replaceable led lights $45 at Costco about $11 each, 2) hinge some black barn doors made from poster board on the outside of the fixtures to give better light control.
i would never have reconized you… what a transformation
Hey Joe
great tips and video. im just thinking should i go with LED or Fluorescent T8? also i cant find 6 pcs one in Canada. they only sell with 4 florescent.do you think i can get enough power with 4 each side? i know LED one is much easier but whats ur personal choice if you wanna keep one in your studio for portraits?
thanks again
Another great video by Joe. 4000 or 6000K? I guess their would be round catchlights if you use a round light? thankz
Thank you from Brazil