Laws of Light: Placing a Softbox

Laws of Light episode for you on how to best place and set your softbox to light exactly what you are focusing on.
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Hi, How to make the light coming out of the soft box with the grid softer?

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Amazing how many hours and how much info you managed to squeeze into this 7 minute video..!!! only masters can do that...Thx.

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" How the light see" or "How the reflector see" great concept, !! Also what mood you want using specific reflector , very well explained . I have now a clear idea what I need, thank you.

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[@hachewie]

Brilliant video. Thank you. I just got my first Umbrella/softbox. I took pics of my family going for a Rembrandt look. Worked ok but my subjects were not very willing models.

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Purchased a softbox and haven't used this much. Doing a mini photoshoot with a friend's baby tomorrow and this video helped me tremendously! Saving this video for future reference!

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Very good and well articulated video. I like how you talk about what the softbox "sees." A good way to put it. More, and more understandable, in seven minutes that a lot of guys do in triple that time.

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Good to hear. Thanks for the compliment!

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Very helpful! I was trying to figure out what I always had a dark background and it helped seeing why I needed a bigger soft box!

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Glad that we could help to problem solve that!

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This is hands down the best video Ive ever seen on the subject of using a softbox. Thank you for having made this easy to understand and very informative video that is very helpful to me.

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What a great video!!! Explained the difference of sizes of softboxes perfectly!! Thank you!

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The analogy of the light being able to SEE is very interesting and helpful ! I'll think about it in my next photoshoot for sure. Thanks for the great content

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Excellent Mr. Morgan, as always.

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I had flash back of you studio in the brewery , watching this. Great job!

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Thanks for this, it answered the exact thing I needed. Was trying to figure out the best softbox to evenly light a wall from about 2-3m away. But at that distance it seems no to matter that much.

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@@TheSlantedLens also just wondering if you could help me. I'm preparing a better gear for my youtube videos with a better camera, mic and a light + Softbox. The idea is to have a softbox on a 45" angle to the camera to give me a nice light in one side and shadow in the other. I want to use the grid to minimize light from going to the background as I will have different lights there. I'm only being able to find round softboxes from 80cm and up. I'm recording in a very small space in my bedroom, so the softbox will be close to me as I don't have much room. In this case, do you think a 80cm round softbox is too big or in a good size? I can't get a smaller one, it has to be 80cm or over. Will this work fine to me? Thanks a lot.

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Hello there. I want to buy a soft box for makeup artistry. Which soft box should I buy? A small or large one ?

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Thank's for the video. In 5:45 it looks like you had a mistake because the tight photo with the title "small softbox" look like it tooks with a large softbox ( less shadows and softer light).

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Effectively explained by showing!

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