Lighting for close up photography with the Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162

The Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 is one of the new small panel LED lights that all photographers should have as part of their lighting kit, it's bright, bi-colour with a colour temperature range from 3500K to 5700K adjustable in 100K increments. Output is 15W (equivalent to approx. 150W filament bulb) with a CRI of ≥96.

It's relatively inexpensive as it doesn't have facilities such as RGB colours, fancy lighting FX or act as a power bank. It fixes to standard lighting grip by means of two female 1/4 inch 20 TPI threads. In the UK it's available from NAM Grip for £59.00. It will run for 1 hour at full poweer and takes 3 hours to charge from a standard USB charger via the supplied USB-C lead.

Today I want to show how a small panel LED light 3 x 5 inches can be used for close-up and macro photography.

 

 The Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 overhead without diffusion acts like a soft box on a smaller scale when used close-up.

 

 The Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 overhead with diffusion from full white grid cloth. LEE Filters 430 or Rosco 3030.

 The Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 from camera left as an undiffused side light creating contrast with split light and no fill light to open the shadows.

 The Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 just out of frame providing soft box style soft light for an image approximately one third magnification.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with slit gobo.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with slit gobo, Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 overhead at 25% output, 5300K for shadow fill.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with slit gobo, Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 overhead at 50% output, 5300K for shadow fill.

Yes, that's right, I'm using a continuous light to fill the shadows created from a gobo'd flash light source. The shutter speed controls the ambient light and the Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 at 50% output in this scenario equalled my flash shutter speed.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with slit gobo, Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 overhead at 50% output, 5300K for shadow fill.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with spiral gobo, no fill.

 

 BTS frame showing the position of the Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 overhead to provide shadow fill.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with spot gobo, no fill.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with spiral gobo, Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 overhead at 50% output, 5300K for shadow fill.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with Venitian blind gobo, Ianiro Pocket LED FS-LD 162 overhead at 50% output, 5300K for shadow fill.

Pixapro Gobo Spot Spotlight with Venitian blind gobo.

With an understanding of exposure, it is possible to combine flash and continuous lights.
 

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