I've had a Mettle 600AD moonlight for years. It served me well and I've shot some nice work with that in my gear. However, when I saw there were newer monolights with onboard rechargeable batteries, I had to get one. Simply not having that separate battery pack and cords to carry around is a definite plus.

So I ordered one and I took it out the other day on a shoot. Thought I'd share the results. Gear used: Xplor 600, a 22" beauty dish and a Canon 6D with a 70-200mm F/2.8. Most everything was shot in pretty bright sunlight the last 2 hours of the day and other than some skin/blemish correction these are almost straight out of the camera.

From the first shot I was in love. Plenty of power to beat the sun...easy to adjust power levels... and lightweight. These were all shot in manual but tested the TTL and it worked perfect. I know this is more of sharing samples than it is a full review but hope you enjoy

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What can I say...I'll take my little cheap speed lights over mono lights any day. Not that I'd want to do this with either one but...which would you want to drag out to this type of location, knock over and have it fall off that cliff? the heavy mono light that cost $500-3000 and weighs a ton carrying it across that sand with a big stand and battery pack....or 2 little $75 speed lights and a couple lightweight stands. Ok the question is kind of rhetorical...the thing is however, we as photographers have been convinced that power is king and that we can only get those impactful, powerful images with an expensive moonlight. Well, I left my mono light in the car for this one...went back to what I do best. Here you have 2 Yonguo 560 III speed lights -bare, no modifiers...simple, cheap and effective.