continuous lights VS flash?

For models, the amount of continuous light required for full lengths would be too hot and uncomfortable for the models and tough on their eyes and make up. Flash is fast,cooler and more comfortable.
 
You do not have to use flash if you get the images you want to with your lights... I have prints of me that were taken with hot lights when I was a kid some... 50 years ago... Flash gives you more in focus and stops motion that longer shutter speeds you may need for hot lights do not stop.

It is your choice.. try it with what you have and see if it works for you.
 
For me, strobes are much better than continuous lighting. Continuous lighting gave me some good results, but it was a lot more work and I had to be much more careful. The lights were hot as heck, hard to work around, always had to shoot on a tripod, aperture had to be wide open and the shutter was almost too slow. Strobes is a different story. Much more control, not hot, rarely use a tripod, can light a much larger area with much less equipment.

As far as a flash per se, I never use my flash in the studio at all. There's always a wireless trigger on the hotshoe anyway, so it can't even pop up. The only reason to use it with continuous lights is to fill a little where the continuous lighting isn't cutting it. I never did with continuous lighting. It seemed to mess things up more than it helped.
If you have good continuous lighting, you shouldn't ever need it.
 
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