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Strip Light Softbox Setup Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2024
- How to use a strip light softbox as a rim light, hair light, background separation, and key light. In this video I demonstrate how to put a Godox strip light softbox together and use it for various portrait effects. I also demonstrate the actual light pattern the strip box produces.
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Just a tip: I see many people get the center mount wrong. Maybe it's put wrongly from the factory, but it's nothing to correct it. You have to unscrew the 3 philips screws and the hand-screw, reverse the middle ring, and screw everything back. Now you have the hole markings visible from the back, and the hand-screw outside of the softbox, so you can loosen it and rotate the softbox as desired.
I've used a variety of lights in the 28 years of my professional photography life and I have to say that this is the most concise, informative video I've seen ever. Kudos!
Very informative, yes
Thanls Ed I have been watching video on photography and lighting on UA-cam for over 2 years now and you are the first person to show how to actually put together any kind of soft box and show that sometimes it can be frustrating. Thank you so much for that part of the video and the whole video was just awesome.
Very informative and well done. You got right to the point and went out of your way with including the settings you used. Great Job!
Thank you Ed, this video really helped me, my strip box came today. I bought it to use as a clamshell, but was searching for more uses. Great video.
Thanks for the video ed, good to see you again
Definitely excels as rim lights. Also nice for lighting elongated objects, like cars.
Alway Excellent Videos, and knowledge imparted for those like me interested in learning more about Portait Photography. I am very appreciative of Your wiork and teaching. Your teaching is exllent, and I find superior to others I have watched. I like the fact that You cover details, and explain how the light hits the background, and subject, distances from subject, Power settings, etc. Camera settings, etc. Thank You so very much. I watch many of Your Video/Teaching many times to help me absorb the info. I just bought a C stand which is scheduled to arrive tomorrow to hold a 34 inch Ez Glow Pro Softbox with a Beauty dish diffuser. I believe this will finish off My home studio. Dues to My advanced age, and mobility issues I have purchased caster wheels for My Tripos & one Light Stand. Those are excellent items that have greatly improved my comfort enjoy the Hobby I love. Mr Verosky, You're Awesome, and not enough words to Thank You, and also for your valuable time replying to a photo I ask for your comments. I pray that You, and Your loved ones are doing well, nd enjoying life to its fullest.
very nice video and I'm sure you saved a bunch of beginners a few bucks when you showed the under-light pattern. Thanks for the effort.
Your video helped me decide to invest in one set like that. Tks.
Best lighting and softboxes reviews and tutorial on UA-cam. I subscribed
Ed, great and concise overview! Nice work!
Ed, your videos are AWESOME!!! Thank you so much for doing this....
Thank you!
Thanks Ed for those practical insights based on your experience. Really appreciated. I was thinking on buying big strip soft boxes but after watching your video I have a better understanding and will make a better purchase decision. I will probably go for smaller size of strip boxes. Thanks and great job!
Thank you so much for this video. I have a love hate relationship with my strip light. If a client moves, it will cause these funky shadows. I love how you demonstrated where to place the light to achieve different effects.
This is great, I like your style, really informative and down to earth. Cheers!
Many thanks Ed for your informative video. I had some difficultly assembling the strip soft box so I finally made a screen print of the video frame where it shows the rods being attached to the ring. Using this screen print I was able to mark the holes where the rods are inserted. Then I was able assemble the soft box . The assembly would have been much easier if a simple instruction leaflet showing how to assemble the soft box and the correct holes to be used in the speed ring
Good learning experience, thank you.
Great analysis. I agree on the issue of limited prwcticallity
That was excellent. Thank you.
Great information, well done !
Great and practical. Thank you.
Ed ! Great to see you again.... All the best for 2020....
Same to you. Thanks!
Thank you for the videos, friendly and informative. I bought two of these strips, they do their job as the rim light(s), both on the sides and mounted up high horizontally. As the main lights I only used them to shoot ...fishing rods. The diffuser is relatively heavy so make sure guys the stand and the mount fixer can bear the load, especially if you need to mount it at an angle
Good tips!
Hey Ed. Long time no C. Excelent video Thanks for posting this!!
Thanks, Steven!
great review - very useful
I bought one, three or four years ago, just to try it out and to see if it would add anything to my shots. I used it a lot in the first couple of weeks but only a few times sense.
Great tutorial and thanks for all of the information. As a result of this video I'll take my one out and experiment a bit more with it.
At first, I really wasn’t sure I’d ever use one of these as a key. But it does have potential in the right hands.
Wow great video!
Westcott Switch Boxes are very easy to break down and make things much easier to carry from location to location.
Very useful video , I learned lot from it, looking forward more videos like this keep it up good work, thanks a lot sir R.manohar , india,chennai
Thanks, Ed! While I have enough lights for the portraiture I do, I was considering a strip light soft box. I think I'll pass basically because it's big and I have a 47" round soft box to deal with already.
Hey, Ed, assembling a strip light wasn’t hard but breaking it down was a big pain. I had to bend two rods on the same end from their corners inward to get enough slack in the soft box so I could extract them end from their corners. Doing that still required a strong grip on the corners to pull them free. Pulling the rods out from the mount was not possible; they’re stuck in there when the box is assembled. Breaking down the strip light was such a hassle I don’t see myself getting much use out of it unless I set it up and leave it that way. BTW, your videos are excellent.
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I have had a set of these boxes for years, wish someone told me in the beginning what holes to use on the Bowens mount: use holes marked 2 and 3 on the opposing sides, soooo much easier to set up and teardown.
One useful setup you left out is a single strip horizontally as a hair/separation light. A small one, like a 10x24, mounted just above your backdrop and angled down towards the back of the subjects head/shoulders works great for close in portraits. Obviously it won't work for full body, but it is easy to set up. Since a lot of my legal profession headshot clients like a more traditional dark background over a crisp white one, combined with them often wearing darker(navy blue) suits, I often heed to add that separation. I've mounted one to a single lightstand AND hung a popup background from the same stand using a super clamp. Adding a key and reflector gives you an quick and easy 2 stand headshot setup.
Good setup! Thanks, Jimmy.
For corporate headshots it can be very useful. Probably wouldn't bring one as huge as you were using. But I like to use a 3 light setup with reflector. Octo Softbox key light, a grid light to light the hair and a small portion of the neck and a smaller light like the v860ii flash with magmod sphere aimed at the background for a little gradient In the background.
Godox are great value and I like the proliferation of bowens mounts.
Grids and feathering go well with striplights.
But I would hate disassembling and reassembling on site every time I left the studio - some softboxes are more portable...
Absolutely. I figure I’ll use these almost exclusively in my home studio setup, rather than take them on location.
@@edverosky I agree. They would be nice in the studio but I wouldn't want to set them up on location.
cool video
Big end = B for Bowen LOL thanks for the review
Great video!! I was researching for a video using speedlights with stripbox. For the problem with the uneven distribution of the light inside the stripbox, since the speedlights emit a horizontal beam, I think maybe you should have rotated the speedlight 90 degrees with respect to the stripbox, that way the light beams would coincide (parallel beams, instead of perpendicular) 👍
There is a video suggesting a milk-white diffuser to be put on the flash for more even light distribution
@@evgenykorolev523 Thanks but, would you have the link of that video you're talking about? Thanks
@@hackerockmedia found it:-)
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Thank you , Ed for great video again! Very helpful. BTW, you look like Silvester Stalone...especially in this video with the cap :) I guess you heard that before :)))))
Yes! 😂 I don’t get it but I do love me some Rambo.
A small tip, use four inches of gaffer tape inside to keep rods from coming out of box when dissembling it.
That is a good tip.
Hi,
Talking about disassembling the softbox in order to take it on location then assemble it again, I use the Rotalux range by Elinchrom and my strip box becomes like a folded umbrella (sort of) in less than three minutes. And when I'm there, after two or three more minutes, the soft box is ready to go again. Elinchrom might be more expensive, of course.
But the extra cost is probably worth it. Thanks!
Is two speedlight enough to lighten the sides of the model when using with 800W strobe in octabox?
Are there any quick setup godox strip boxes? Which size do u recommend?
The ease of portability is a moot point now as Glow and many other companies have strip boxes that take a minute or two (or less) tops to set up and most take seconds to break down . Rod assembly modifiers be damned lol. Great vid.
What kind of modeling light bulb are you using? I hate the yellow/warm halogen bulbs that comes with the godox lights
Thank you for this tutorial! Can you give me a link to buy the mannequin. Thank you!
What is the reason to use high iso of 400 instead of 100?
Hey Ed, great tutorial! I’m just getting into lighting and experimenting with different modifiers.
What size are the strip boxes you use in this video?
I was leaning towards 12” x 47” for my small home studio
14x63”
which is better glow ez lock strip lights or godox strip lights
Hi Ed is the same size for the stripbox ? 6:37 I feel the size is different
I'm not sure how I got these assembled in the first place, but I cannot for the life of me disassemble them. All i do is rip the cover. Any suggestions? thank you!
nice tuto. you said that you don't use these for rim light on location, what i can understand due to the heavy job to assemble it compared to rapidbox and ez glow strip box. But in that case how would you use your octabox... for rim light on location, quick setup ?
As long as I can transport it easily, I think anything is ok. And actually, I tend to use bare flash for rim and accent lighting if I can get away with it.
thank you. I try to use magbox and soft diffuser as much as possible with two ad200pro. for rim light, i am investigating rogue flashbender xl pro V3 silver with grid... any experience on these ? Linday adler shows two boudoir photo with these in their rogue tutos. also maggrid+magspher on godox V1 ?
by the way, how do you reach such strong modeling lighting with the godox speedlight ? modeling light only ? i have a V1 and V860Ii and not sure i can reach this power
Thank you for the video
Not a big fan of Godoy. The profoto boxes are much nicer
Hello Ed, Is it a good idea to use strip soft boxes to light green screen? I'm planing on using two lights.
Yes anything that can create a more even and smoother lighting on the green screen is a good move.
where do you get your mannequins / wigs? Thanks. Great video!
Thanks. Link to mannequin is in another comment. Mine included two wigs.
At 6:14 you say you are using two TT685's but I see constant light coming from the stripboxes. I have the TT685 and didn't know that was possible or do you have another light in there?
I’m using flash for the still shots. But im using a constant light in the light spread demo against the backdrop.
Get the Glow EZ Strip box it opens up like an umbrella.
That sounds like it’d be a lot more convenient. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
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Hey Ed...you got more vids?
Couple hundred. See my channel! 😊
Oh I meant meant on the way. I’m subscribing already and you do have quite an informative channel!
Ipwhat of I only have one strip box and on parabolic umbrella
Use what you have. No rule says you need two.
Wondering why you're using ISO 400 with a flash. Is it because the flash isn't powerful enough?
Normally I’d shoot at ISO 100, f/4 or wider. But for demo purposes I stopped down to make sure the hair and BG showed up pretty clearly. The smaller flashes might’ve had to go to full, but I had plenty of room on the AD400 either way. Great question!
Hi Ed,
I don't use those those long (strip) boxes but I always wonder if there would be a difference in light fall if you mount your speedlight horizontal or vertical because ..
...... a speedlight often can be set to the lens width. In this case you would put it to wide (often 24mm) to spread the light ( like you explaining around 8:40 ).
So to spread the light with small light source (speedlight) it could be beneficial to mount it vertical .
Could you try ??
Best wishes for 2020 for you and your family, and thanks for sharing again !
Thank you. And I’ll look into doing a video comparing light patterns of flash zoom settings etc.
Where did you purchase your model?
www.ebay.com/usr/amt-mannequins-store
Nice information. However, the last thing I want to do is spend a ton of time setting up and tearing down my gear. Once I saw the rods, I thought, "NOPE."
Approx 8:30min using a speedlight really isnt using the stipbox to it's film potential. You can actually see the the falloff caused by the directional light even at full wide setting.
On the issue of setting Up taking down I would definitely choose an umbrella type stripbox as they are much more practical.
U remind me of silvester stallone
Me again..the aging sex symbol! I use the strip lights when working mostly with dancers...I love this look. I havent used it for portraits but might give it a try. I like my strip lights that go with my Paul Buff Einsteins...the best part is they open like an umbrella..no fooling around with those damn spokes..they seem to be well made....rarely take them on location tho they break down well....too much gear...thanks again for helping me to get back on track!
How about this! Just take the Bowens adapter out and just put the S-Mount in its place. The S-Mount actually fit inside the speed-ring. The Bowens adapter is simply not necessary. I discovered this about a year ago. The Bowens fits inside the S-Mount, but its loose and giggles around too much. The Bowens adapter just isn't needed with the S-Mount adapter.
I just tried this with both the S-Type and the S-Type II, and it didn't work. Can you send me a photo of your setup?
@@edverosky I just send you a series of images of the modified Speed ring. I didn't alter the speed ring in any way. Other than discovering that the S-Type speedlite adapter fitting inside the 6 inch diameter of the empty speedring.
Thanks for the photos you emailed. Together we solved it!
Like the video; however, I think 3 minutes is a bit excessive to devote to the construction of a 4 rod strip box. I have two of the same unite and can attest that it is fairly self explanatory.
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