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How to choose off-camera flash modifiers

How to choose off-camera flash modifiers - Speedlite Flash Tutorial

From the course: Flash Photography: Canon Speedlites

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How to choose off-camera flash modifiers

- Let me share with you some ideas about which light I might choose for lighting my subject here. And I'm calling this a light. Once I have attached a speed light to a soft box or to an umbrella, now the entire thing is a light and I can just talk about this unit as a light. I can say "Grab that light and move it," or "Grab that soft box and move it." I don't have to say "Grab the speed light "and the soft box, and position it someplace else." So one of the things I like about a soft box like this one is that it contains the light really well and allows it to be very directional. Because it's enclosed in the back, it's pushing all the light forward, so it's also more efficient. But it's got edges to it, and the light is largely going forward. It's widening as it leaves the soft box, but primarily very forward. So by feathering the light closer or away from my subject, I can shine it more on the background, or not on the background, and it gives me alotta control using a soft box that…

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