Have used strobe and continuous lights, IMO strobe every time. As Shelia said continuous lights give off a lot of heat, if shooting models, it can be uncomfortable, especially in summer (even in Scotland) cause them to sweat this in turn will produce unwanted highlights unless you have a model with good makeup skills or a make up artist. Most probably all strobes have a modeling lamp, this is used to see what the lighting will actually look like. Strobes come in many powers, for a small shooting area 250 watt will be more than sufficient. There are many makes; Ellencrome and Bowan are very good. I have used both, some Bowans can be fired by remote radio trigger and some Ellencrome can use an IR trigger. Strobes are daylight white balanced at approx 5200k so there is no very little white balance setting issues. Either way the most important think is metering them correctly and using the right attachments (soft box/snoot/umbrella etc) for the job. Simon

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