Working as a photographer’s assistant in the dim and distant past, I remember being very impressed with a pair of gigantic, but ancient, strip-light flashes that I was tasked with wheeling out on special occasions when we needed a bit of dramatic side lighting. Powered by an equally gigantic battery pack, the lights let off an alarming ‘pop’ when triggered, and the force of the blast could lift a small child off its feet.
The swarm of LED tube lights currently on the market are an infinitely more convenient form of that sort of strip flash, and with their red, green and blue (RGB) LED emitters, rolls of gels are no longer required when we want to change the colour of the light. And, because modern tube lights are battery-powered, they are as useful out on location as in the studio.
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