Anyone use a "room light" strobe?

Anyone use a "room light" strobe, like at receptions for example? I'm wondering how the metering would work that with in combination with using either an on-camera flash in ettl or remote triggering. Thaniks

Yep, thread here. I shoot all manual, camera and flash. It's only when i'm outside the coverage area of my room lights that I turn my flash on.

I thought of the same thing but using my studio lights 2 X1600 and 1 X800 but all shot in manual mode

Do the guests seem to mind the entire room 'flashing' with each shot you take? I can see the benefits of shooting this way, I'd just worry it would make everyone crazy.

snakeman55 wrote in post #11616668
Do the guests seem to mind the entire room 'flashing' with each shot you take? I can see the benefits of shooting this way, I'd just worry it would make everyone crazy.

So long as you're not a machine gunner it should be fine. I've used room lights for 75+ weddings and i've never had a single negative comment. The few comments I get are overwhelmingly positive, from photography enthusiasts wondering about them.