Flash photography tip: Make sure you have enough flash power

Thursday 13 April 2023, 20:10 by Elja Trum | 2,881 views | 3 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Especially when using speedlights, it can sometimes be difficult to get enough light from your flashes for the situation on a sunny day. You can combine several flashes to get enough flash power.

Elinchrom ONE, battery-powered with a flash power of 131 Ws
Special holders are available that allow you to attach several flashes next to each other to a single light stand.

An alternative, of course, is to use a more powerful flash. If you expect to do a lot of photography outdoors in daylight, this can be a good choice. For example, a Godox Witstro AD600BM, a Jinbei HD-400 or an Elinchrom ONE. These are actually studio flashes with a battery.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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3 comments

wilmers wrote on Wednesday 19 April 2023 at 09:26 | reply
aren't you forgetting the Profoto B10 and 1 BX, which also deliver great performance among battery-powered flashes????
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Elja Trum wrote on Wednesday 19 April 2023 at 10:00 | reply
Those are indeed also nice (but unfortunately pricey) options! That Elinchrom One isn't the cheapest either, by the way.
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wilmers wrote on Wednesday 19 April 2023 at 12:11 | reply
In general, the more expensive stuff is also often somewhat more consistent in terms of emitting the same light, color temperature, speed and durability. it’s usually in there somewhere
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