How to make a DIY Light Grid or Egg Crate for under $5 dollars.

I needed a light grid for 1 of my lights so i decided to make one myself. Gorilla style film making at its best. Indie film solutions.
A light grid or egg crate helps you manipulate your soft light source so it becomes more directional and controlled. Here i made a custom light grid for 1 of my big cheap florescent lights.

[@jjaylad]

I've made some like this. Made them LARGE to fit my largest umbrellas and just clip them onto the smaller ones to fit, and let the excess be excess. Really enjoyed your entertaining video!

[@pharaoh9000]

Very helpful video! I think I'll try this! Thanks!

[@gigglegrenade]

I really enjoyed watching this and I think your design is brilliant. Excellent job!

[@bendadams]

Thanks!

[@olivertruswell]

Cool vid, great job! I like your filming style. Very entertaining

[@SlAy3r226]

Very useful video- thanks man!

[@vickileonardo]

Informative and entertaining. Thanks!

[@zumadundee7049]

i just did that and looks exactly the same. thank you for the tutorial.

[@bendadams]

Glad it works for you!

[@recepcionbajomolle6768]

Nice prototype for future improvements!

[@jbetz78]

Great music and instruction!

[@jbetz78]

You’re a funny guy! I loved the end of the tape! Encore encore!

[@3ilder]

Thx! Good edit!

[@onwebpooja]

apply some heat on the sticker , it come out easily. it works with every surface

[@gabrielhohagen4172]

Thanks man!

[@thewanderer4402]

That intro was hilarious

[@bendadams]

Thanks.

[@silvermediastudio]

"My wife found me a better knife to use."
Wow. Just wow.

[@LeopoldN]

Heat gun or hair dryer to remove stickers.

[@FarmGirlChronicles]

You are funny😂😂😂

well done!

[@deenugent473]

Nice work!

[@bendadams]

Thanks!

[@hope.m1703]

When you just push every thing of the table 😆
I hate stickers too

[@fabricetah4075]

Wet the sticker completely with water. It becomes easier to remove.

[@divusiulius7539]

Thanks for the video. I was looking for something just like this. My only concern is the reflective nature of the black poster board. Poster board has a luster reflective surface that is reflecting about 30-40% of the original light at the angle it's supposed to be stopping. Maybe if you spray paint the board with flat black paint, it will cut down on that light reflection. Also, have you tried other materials? Like a Black EVA Form Sheet. Flat Black Fabrics are ideal but it requires some sewing experience. Thank You for the great DIY idea.

[@bendadams]

Great idea on other materials. Your exactly right. Some matte black paint if you're trying to keep it inexpensive. I agree on the properties of that poster board. It wasn't ideal, it was cheap

[@rimohani]

how do the grid does not appear in the lights shadow ? I mean those are obstacles in the lights ... i tried it once and ended up with a grid on the wall :D

[@dishafreestyle]

Raymond Hani shadow will only appear if the grid is far from the lamp or if the source of light is so small/spot light

[@sburgos9621]

I made an egg crate system for my flash but it creates a grid pattern lighting where you can actually see the black lines. Does this mean I made the cells too tight or maybe I made them too thick.

[@bendadams]

I'm not sure. But I know flashes are a small point lights, which creates hard shadows. The larger the light source, the softer the shadow.
Putting diffusion between the egg crate and light will help with that.

[@sburgos9621]

@@bendadams Thanks for the reply. I was thinking of doing that since it worked in a situation where a barn door was creating banding, but I set up my adapter so that the diffusion can only be applied in front of the area where the grid goes. I did this because I never intended to use diffusion and the grid at the same time. I redesigned my grid in a thinner shape and will test it when I'm done 3d printing it.

[@irishmark]

This won't work well reflective barn doors as the light still has soo much surface to bounce off. I've taped up the reflective material with matte tape on my lights so that the barn doors actually work as barn doors properly. I still mask around the doors with masking tape occasionally to kill the gaps on the doors themselves to create a highly functional directional light.

[@bendadams]

Good idea. Id even consider painting them if you like the permanent idea. The gaps are annoying. They werent originally intended for "area" lights but for spots.

[@jaydevsingh3067]

Use coconut oil to remove sticker from hard surface

[@bendadams]

Coconut oil has even more abilities than any one person can realize. That wouldn't work with this card stock obviously. Thanks

[@likebliss]

@@bendadams heat gets stickers off very well! apply a hair dryer to it for 10-20 seconds, then watch it peel off like magic.

[@discipleslim9506]

Was he planning to end it all after making this video?

[@bruceclark3143]

I go to auctions & have to remove their sticker - use goof off.

[@mirzazaib9323]

oooooooooi

[@hugobrown2516]

Putting a grid with barn doors defeats the purpose. Get rid of doors. Nice grid work!

[@bendadams]

mb it worked partially. The barn doors have reflective material on the inside so they were designed (if this generic light was designed) to reflect light to make a bigger light source not to cut the light like tradition doors on a fresnel. The large surface area on the light makes barn doors less effective and the reflective inside makes it even less effective for cutting and shaping the light. I don't use it anymore but it did help some. In the long run, A better light will do better.

[@3ilder]

mb nope, it does not. Large light needs grid to focus light more.

[@prachuyya]

Get some sleep bro

[@bendadams]

I tried. I still haven't gotten sleep. :-]

[@drumslapper]

I don't think in today's climate you need to show a hand gun, real or fake or what ever. Stopped watching.