From the course: Lighting with Flash: On Location from Close Up to Portrait

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Lighting the shot with a small softbox and some foil

Lighting the shot with a small softbox and some foil

From the course: Lighting with Flash: On Location from Close Up to Portrait

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Lighting the shot with a small softbox and some foil

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So rather than taking this light and going up all the way off the ceiling, I'm going to put a big softbox. Well, not big for us, but really big compared to Sticky, right over him. And this is a LumiQuest Softbox LTp for laptop pro, because it's designed to be as big as your 15-inch MacBook and ride right alongside it in the, in your case and take up no extra space. So let's see where we're at, power-wise. So this is on 1 128th power. I've got it dialed down as far as I can go for a couple reasons. I don't need a ton of power this close, and I also don't want to subject the frog to any more trauma than necessary. So see what we got here. And I'm going to close down to f8 just on a guess. So I'm going to give myself a little more power, because I do want to have depth of field to start to carry these other sticks and such, because I think that's, that's interesting to have there. So I'm going to crank it up to, let's call it 132nd power. Sticky is gotta really be wondering what's going…

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