I'm back! Talking about the latest RGB LEDs from Godox

In this episode, Michael talks about the latest generation of affordable and high performance RGB LEDs from Godox: the Litemons LA150R and LA300R. 
You can learn more about these online at MoLight:
LA150R: https://gomolight.com/collections/rgb-leds/products/godox-litemons-la150r-rgb-led
LA300R: https://gomolight.com/collections/rgb-leds/products/godox-litemons-la300r-rgb-led
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Transcript

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Female Announcer: [00:00:00] Live from MoLight Studios in the heartland of America. It's your Monday morning jolt of hot photography tips with a frothy topping of the latest product news from Godox, MoLight, and more. Welcome to the Monday morning cup of Mo, with your host, the man who put the Mo in MoLight, Michael Mowbray.  
 
 

Michael Mowbray: Hi and welcome back. 
 
 

Adding color to your photos is one of the hottest trends I've seen in the photography industry in a long time. As a matter of fact, you know, doing gels, doing color LEDs, everybody's into it. As you can see behind me, I'm mixing color in on a gray wall. Because why? It looks cool. Mixing it in on people, mixing it in on their hair, mixing it in on backgrounds, whatever. 
 
 

Color is the rage. So, people are looking for different ways of adding color. Colored gels for flashes, one way to do it. Downside to colored gels though on flashes is [00:01:00] that, you know, not every flash is easy to gel. As many have found, especially in the more powerful ones that have big flash tubes. 
 
 

It's not easy to gel those. And it's not easy to pre visualize what you're going to get with gels. You kind of have to pop a few flashes and adjust the power and, and never quite sure what the color density's going to be, and what the saturation's going to be, and it might get a little too blown out, all that kind of stuff. 
 
 

There's one way to make it really simple, and this is what I do for most of the color work that I do. I use LEDs. I use RGB LEDs matter of fact, I've got one on a boom, on a wall boom in my studio and I've got a gray background set up for most of my work anymore. And if I want to change the color of the background from standard studio gray to any color I want, I pop on the LED. 
 
 

And the one I'm using is the SZ150R from Godox. That's been replaced. So, it's been replaced by something that's even newer. even better and [00:02:00] less expensive. And I'm talking about the LA 150R and the LA 300R from Godox. These are part of their Litemons line of LEDs and these are fantastic. Let me grab one here real quick. 
 
 

This is the Leitmans 150R, relatively lightweight. This is, I would say it's almost half the weight of the SZ150R I have up on a boom. So I wouldn't be afraid to boom this. I think this is, if nothing else, it looks really cool. It kind of looks like a stormtrooper if you ask me. But very well fan controlled and heat dissipation here on this. 
 
 

But the cool thing again about these is that you can really dial in any color you want and it's super easy. Like the one I have up in my studio, it's on all the time. How do I turn it off? I use my Godox light app. I select that light and I just turn it off. And then the next time I need it, I just go to the Godox Light App and I enable it, turn it back on, and change it to whatever color I want. 
 
 

I [00:03:00] don't need to climb up on a ladder to turn it off and on with the power switch. I can do it all from the Godox Light App. So, that's one of the coolest things that we're not, many people are talking about with Godox LEDs, especially the RGB ones, is that they all will connect via Bluetooth to the Godox Light App. 
 
 

app and that's free to download on your app store. I use it for iPhone. As a matter of fact, I think I have one dialed up here, so hang on a second. I don't have this LA 150R plugged in, but I have an LDX 50R panel back here in the corner and that's what's giving me the teal light. Here's my Godox light app. 
 
 

I'm just going to back out here for a second and then I can go into select that particular light. I'm selecting the one that's over my shoulder here and I'm just going to change the color. Let's see. Hmm. Oh, how about something a little more blue? How about something a little bit more red or a little orange? 
 
 

How about something magenta? You can see what the [00:04:00] possibilities are and here's the best part about this. What I see is what I get. I can see the exact color I'm going to get through my viewfinder. I can see it through this one. I'm seeing it on my monitor down here. I know what color I've got. Ooh, actually, I kind of like that one. 
 
 

Maybe we'll leave that one there for a while. So, I can go in and I just dial it in on this whole color wheel. And I can control how saturated it is. Maybe I want a little bit more green saturation. Maybe I want a little less. You know. It's super easy. So if you struggle with adding color to your photos, RGB LEDs are fantastic for this. 
 
 

Now one downside to LEDs that some people feel is that you have to use a higher ISO because they're not as powerful as flashes. I find that's really not an issue anymore with today's cameras because I'm shooting at ISO 800 all the time on my Sony's and it looks spotless, no noise. No, nothing looks like ISO 100 that I used to shoot with my cannons so I can shoot ISO 800 with my Sony's. 
 
 

I can [00:05:00] easily use pretty much any led I want at that point and do the portraiture that I want and be as creative as I want. So. The LA one 50 R is, I think a great way to go if you're looking for a do all LED that will take Bowen's modifiers. That's the other great thing about the LA series is that they have a bowen's mount on 'em. 
 
 

So they'll take any bowen's mount soft box, any bowen's mount reflector all that kinda stuff so you can use them with maybe the soft boxes you already have for your Go dock strobes. So the LA 150R will also do daylight and tungsten. So you can switch modes to that and it'll dial down to I got to look at the spec here on this one. 
 
 

It'll go down to 1800 degrees Kelvin. That is super warm. I've seen very, very few LEDs that will go down that warm and it'll go all the way up to 10, 000 degrees Kelvin. Super, super cool. Most LEDs are locked in between like 2800 or 3200 and 6500. These go [00:06:00] beyond that. And the last thing that's fantastic about these is the price. 
 
 

The LA 150R is 349. My SZ 150R that I've got up in my studio was 549. So this is 200 less than the one that I got like 4 or 5 years ago. So it's better, it's newer, it's cooler, and it's 200 less. What more do you need? So, what more do you need? You might need more power, so that's why we also have the LA 300R. 
 
 

That's a 300 watt RGB LED. So, 150R is great for a lot of things. If you need a little bit more light, a little bit more power. Go with the L. A. L. A. 300 R. That's going to give you more power. The L. A. 300 R. I have to look at the price. It's 489. So double the power, but not double the price. Both will work on the Godox light app. 
 
 

Both will work off of some of the color remote controls that came out a few years ago [00:07:00] for the Godox LEDs. I prefer the. phone app by far. It's so easy. It is so easy. It's unbelievable. I can go into my groupings to it. I can set up. I can set up groups where I've got six lights and I get them all tied in via Bluetooth and I could just turn them on and off all on my app and then dial in whatever color and whatever power I want all from right here. 
 
 

So that's super cool. Super easy. The LA one 50 R, the LA 300 R from God Docs. Check it out@gomol.com, G-O-M-O-L-I-G-H-T. Go to our RG or go to our LED section and the dropdown. You'll see an option for RGB LEDs. Go there. You can see all the different R-G-B-L-E-D options that we have. So check it out today.