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Light spread with a studio strobe

Light spread with a studio strobe

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Light spread with a studio strobe

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- In the last movie, we took a look at how you can use a bare white wall to get a much better understanding of the spread of your handheld flash. We're going to do the same thing now with one of my strobes and some modifiers. So I have the small head from my Elinchrom ELB 400 mounted on the end of this C-stand. It, like the handheld flash was, is pointing straight up. So I think what's going to happen here is I'm going to see a 180 degree spread coming out of it because there's no modifier on it of any kind. So, let's fire this up, take a shot. Again, I'm overpowering the ambient light in the room and so, what I get, Whoa! What I get is a supernova because of course the light is not coming out in a 180 degree slice, it's coming out spherically, or hemispherically, it's coming out 360 degrees so there's a bunch flying toward me. So this light goes everywhere, you can also see it's going down, this is almost like a 360 degree globe. You get very little control with the light this way…

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