From the course: Lighting with LED Panels

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Grids

Grids

- Another way that you can control your LED lights is with the use of grids. Now what a grid does is it actually, light likes to spread out in all directions, and it keeps it focused in a singular direction so you don't get a lot of spill and you get a different feel for the light when you shine it on your object or when you use it on a person. And grids just, they come with most of these lights. You can buy them sometimes after the fact and they'll just slide right in. Now you can use grids on very small lights 'cause maybe you want to light a small product or using it as a kicker or you can use it on full-sized lights. As a matter of fact, one of the lights that we used earlier, we put a soft box on it because we wanted to get a nice large, soft light source. But even though I want this to be a soft light source, I want to be able to focus it. I don't want a lot of spill off my edges. So a lot of times your soft box can be complimented by a grid. And usually if you have a soft box…

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