- Today I have an awesome light from Falcon Eyes.
It's a cool soft LED light
that runs off super small batteries
but is awesome and bright.
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So I did a review of another Falcon Eyes light.
It was their LED strip
that you could basically put anywhere.
Really cool idea.
Really awesome light.
I only use it in some specialized scenarios
where I really need to put this light
on a wall or something.
However recently, I've been working
with this light which is basically an LED soft disc.
This is it.
There's not much more to it.
It's just a simple light.
It allows you to get really soft light
from a very simple and small source.
So I've been using this light in almost every video
that you've seen recently.
Anytime I'm shooting a product or anytime that I'm shooting
over at my work table, I always put this light
right above me and the reason is it's a nice soft even light
that looks really good when put in certain settings
and then from there I'll add on additional lighting
if I need some stuff on the front or the side.
Also, I've been using this light
as just a single light source.
So a lot of times, there's situations
where you don't want to bring a bunch of gear.
You don't have time.
You don't have the time to set up a bunch
of different lights and you basically just need to use
your existing lighting that's in a location
and then pop on one light to fill in front features.
Now this light is perfect for that.
Because it could basically fit anywhere.
It fits on any normal light stand or C stand
and you can basically put it into situations
where you can't get a bigger soft light.
Right now I'm using like a big soft box
that's how I do this video because I have a setup
that I kinda leave in my office for doing
these kind of videos.
However, this is more cumbersome than taking this out.
This I could just pop on a stand,
flip it on and it's good to go
and I'll get a nice soft look on a face
whether I'm shooting an interview,
someone else or I'm shooting myself.
Now one of the coolest things about this light
is the batteries that they run on.
So it just uses these standard Sony batteries.
Now these are easy to come by.
I have a ton of them just laying around from other cameras
or other pieces of gear.
And they're not super expensive.
Falcon Eyes definitely recommends a certain one
for this light in particular.
I'll put a link down below so you can check that out.
However, I've tested it on all my just batteries
sitting around my house and all of them work great.
So it uses a very inexpensive power source
if you wanna run off battery.
Now you can also run off a C power if you wanna plug it
into the wall which often I'll do that
just so I don't have to worry about battery power.
However running off one of these batteries,
it does last a long time.
I brought this light with me in a situation recently
where I was setting up in different locations
all around the house.
Now I can't show you the exact footage from the shoot
because it was for a client,
however I had Rachel step in just so you could get an idea
of how I could work with this light in the setting.
I was in someone's house.
It was very crammed settings.
And in some of the rooms, I had a bigger light set up
so I did more of like this kind of setup where
I had my key light, I had a hair light.
I had another light filling the ceiling
so I could just bring up the ambiance in the room.
However, when you got to the kitchen,
it as a little brighter.
All I really needed was some punch from the front
so the face looks nice.
So I have that nice key light look.
Now to do that, I just used the Falcon Eyes light
and this light worked great because you could just pop it up
and you have a nice soft light that's even
and it looks great in that setting.
And I completely ran this off batteries
for the two hours that I was in the situation shooting.
So some of my other lights that I'm using
don't use batteries like this.
They use much bigger V mount batteries
and those are more expensive
and they're harder to bring with you.
These kind of batteries I could just throw in my bag
and have a bunch of them and this light could last all day
because I can just be flipping out batteries.
Another awesome feature about this light in particular
is that it is color controls.
So you can go from like 3000 Kelvin.
You can tell it's down super low.
And you can go all the way up to 56 Kelvin.
Ooh that's bright.
And also you can control how bright and how dim
you want this light.
Right now, I am at 0%.
You can literally bump it up 1% if you want.
So it goes zero to a hundred.
Look at that, that's that 1%.
It creates a nice fill.
So I'll just add that right there.
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I should do another video just to about lighting the face
and the different ways that you light the face.
But you can really dial in this light in terms of the color
and also in terms of how bright you want it.
Now in terms of brightness as a whole,
it does put off enough light like I said,
in a house that has lots of windows in the daylight
I can use this as my key light to fill in a face.
Now if I was to go outside, I wouldn't be able
to give that much of a punch compared to say the sun.
However, any interview setting,
anything where you're shooting kind of one person on camera,
this is a awesome light to use.
It's definitely not as bright as say
like a big Kino Flo or something like that
but it's also, look how small this is.
It's just a little disk.
So the amount of light that this puts out
is pretty incredible for its size.
And the fact that its not super directional.
It's really soft because of this built in diffusion
and that's one of the point I wanna get at.
If you want a hard light, so if you want
the ability to take off this diffusion,
then this is not your light
because this is essentially a soft light
that is always gonna to be soft.
There's not a whole lot you can do
in terms of modifying this light.
So there's no barn doors.
There's no attachments to really sculpt the light in anyway.
You get this light if you need a soft source
and something that you can even control
the color temperature and you can control your brightness.
So all you YouTubers out there,
if you're looking to build your YouTube setup,
so if you're looking to do something like this,
because this is an awesome light for you
to have a one light setup in any situation
that you're in and build a good looking setup.
Now for any film makers out there,
if you're looking for just a light to add to your kit
that gives you a nice soft kinda punch, this is awesome.
I've used a lot of LED panels in the past,
in a lot of the situations where I'm running gun,
a lot of times I'll be with a camera crew
and someone with one a light
and they'll usually have a soft box around a light panel.
Well this basically solves that issue
because you don't have to have the light box
and you also don't have to have big bulky batteries.
And that's one thing I really like.
It's an all in one unit.
There's no cables hanging off it.
There's no ballast hanging off of it.
It's just this.
That's it.
So literally you could just hand hold this
in a quick setting.
If you need to grab like a quick interview on the go,
well, you could just have your friend hold this up
and get some nice on the face.
And that's one of the keys whenever you're shooting,
as long as you can make someone's face look good,
for like an interview setting,
people aren't gonna necessarily look
at the background as much.
If the face looks awful, then all of a sudden
they're gonna notice that it was lit poorly.
So having something like this,
and just have it around
so that you can fill in facial features
and get an awesome look.
I highly suggest this is awesome.
I'm glad I got this and like I said,
for my YouTube videos in particular,
this is my go to light for any sort of product thing
that I'm doing.
Anytime I'm in here in the office with my products,
this is the light I use to light 'em up.
Also if I need to like run downstairs
or go run somewhere else and just get a quick shot
of a product on a different surface,
or somewhere else, I always just grab this light
because I can grab a small stand.
It's running off battery.
And I could just set up and grab the shot and go
and not have to worry about cables,
not have to worry about anything else
and I now the output is gonna be nice and soft
and it's just gonna look good.
Alright guys that's it for my review
of the Falcon Eyes SO-28TD.
And I highly suggest, if you're looking for this style
of a light, this is good.
I like it.
I do like it a lot.
And it's something I'm gonna continue to use
for a long time.
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See some more details about it.
There's a ton of info that you could go read
down the link that I've added down below.
Alright guys, I'll see yeah in the next one.