After using this kit for over a year, I've gone from using them for a shot or two for each portrait session and using them for personal shoots, to often shooting entire portrait sessions with them. The portability is truly game changing, the quality of light unbeatable, and it makes me creatively very happy to go back to doing 'what you see is what you get shooting' - there's nothing quite like that to recapture the reason most photographers fell in love with photography to begin with. I'm back here today to finally get one of the new Bowens adapters... I've been successfully hacking a couple of solutions (mostly pointing the 8000 at a v-flat - the only one that isn't janky in front of clients) that I will gladly move on from.

In my experience, there a lot to love about the Stella Pro lights. The quality, quantity, and color of light that they emit is quite remarkable especially when you consider the size and weight of the units. The battery life to power ratio is worth noting as well. Add all that to the fact that they are weatherproof, and you quickly realize that these lights open up new ways to think about the use of light for both photography and video applications.

I enjoy the dependability of the CLx Portrait kit. I can trust that they'll work in challenging conditions, or survive when I make a mistake like dropping my STELLA CL 2000 from 10ft onto a rocky creek bed below, going down the bank to retrieve the light and it's still working! My trust in the product is HUGE!!! I recently completed filming a 70 video QiGong e-course for a client with 6 locations ranging from forests to the beaches in and around Santa Cruz, CA and the Portrait Kit worked flawlessly, EACH AND EVERY TIME! The quality of light is on POINT and my client was very pleased with the results.