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Most professional units, such as the Spectrum Aurora 18” Diamond Luxe III Ring light are battery operated. And this is a huge advantage when shooting outdoors. You can adjust the colour temperature to mimic the sun’s light and or use it to compliment the sun to produce an image that appears shot entirely with natural light.

Just like the ring lights we read about above, LED panel lights also come with the option to change the colour temperature. Allowing you to seamlessly mix the light with natural sunlight or allowing you to adjust it with the ambient light colour temperature inside a room.

If you are a portrait photographer, this light can serve dual purposes. First as the key light illuminating the face of the model. And second, where it is not the key light but the catchlight.

To reiterate ring lights and LED Lights are essentially the same. What differentiates them are the shape of the lights and the panel design. Ring lights are a continuous smooth light that is shaped as a circle. Therefore, the shape of the light they produce is circular.

Catchlight produces that beautiful reflection of the source of the key light on the eyes of the subject. This can add a lot of value to your portrait photos.

The most obvious thing about ring lights is that they are shaped like a, well, a ring. They are the best when it comes to shooting beauty shots. The ideal kind of light that would produce flattering facial portraits of models wearing cosmetics or jewellery. Photographers love them, and so do models.

LED panel lights are also very popular as continuous lights for shooting videos. If you are looking for a decent continuous lighting kit for your home studio or professional setup you can look at the 'Illuminate Wand Max' 33" Vlogger & Photography Home Studio LED Light Kit.

LED panel lights are a proper key light for portrait and other types of photography. That said, even ring lights can be used for purposes other than portrait photography. You can use a ring light for shooting product photography, for vlogging (as a continuous light) and so on.

The term LED panel lights denote an array of LED lights setup on a panel type base. This base could be rectangular or square and depending on the specific purpose or utility of that panel lighting systems. Additionally, the number of LEDs on any LED panel lighting system can vary. Usually, the higher number of LEDs, the higher price of the unit.

But what is so special about them? The shape. Ring lights are shaped like a ring and that shape allows the light to uniformly light a face, usually from a straight-on angle. The top-of-the-line ring lights such as the Spectrum Aurora 19” Gold Luxe II Ring light come with a colour temperature adjustment knob. A brilliant feature that allows you to match the colour of the light with the others in the studio. This is useful when you are working in a multi-light setup and or when you need to adjust the colour of your key-light with that of the ambient light in the room.

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Ring lights are better suited for shooting macro photography, flower photography and other close-up photography requirements.

The smaller 9” LED Photography Video Studio Lighting Kit – 2x ‘Duo’ Crystal Luxe is more useful for a small studio or home-studio.

State-of-the-art graceful bouquets of crystal lily buds form perfectly lovely compositions for chandeliers, pendants, and sconces in a silver leaf or gold leaf hand-applied finish.