From the course: Portrait Photography: Ten Styles with One Light
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Shine through vs. reflect for softness
From the course: Portrait Photography: Ten Styles with One Light
Shine through vs. reflect for softness
- There's basically two ways to modify light to make it bigger. You can reflect it off things or you can shine it through things. Like this, this is a five in one reflector. It's got gold on one side, white on the other, and then you unzip this cover and inside it's got silver and black and it's got a translucent center. Here's another one. This is a round version. And this is the translucent side. You can see that light can shine through this, and this one becomes a diffuser, and that's another great way to make light larger. Now, there's instances when you want to do both of 'em. When we use a flash, we usually shine through a diffuser to make the light larger. This kind of a softbox is the same thing. It's got a white cover on it. And then inside it's got silver that makes the light more efficient so that all the light is caught and thrown forward towards your subject. Whereas on the umbrella, you just want to shoot through it. Now, there are reflective umbrellas out there, and…
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