Lighting w fancy LED Flashlights?

[Frank Petronio]

Wonder if anyone here has tried lighting tight shots with some of the fancy $100-plus 200-lumen (whatever those are) tactical SWAT team flashlights that are being marketed to hunters and vigilantes?

They seem pretty darn bright....

 

[swoop]

The problem with hot lights is they make everyone squinty.

 

[Frank Petronio]

Yeah but I've been using halogens for years and there are ways around that, just like strobes and other bright lights.

 

[delft]

The pictures on this blog-entry: http://fotoclubklik.blogspot.com/2010/01/clubavond-13-januari.html (except the top- and bottom pics) were made with a small 1-AA-powered led-flashlight at iso 100 f/22 10 sec. The flashlight was 1-2 meters from the subject. Using a bigger light and faster sensor should make handhold shooting quite feasible. I used daylight color-balance and didn't need much adjusting.

Dirk