Understanding softboxes and how to use them [Workshop Roundup]
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2019
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Softboxes are highly popular lighting modifiers are known for their soft, homogenous light, but there’s much more to them than that. In this show I look at different types of softboxes, different sizes and what they do and also how to choose the best softbox for you.
To end the show, I also demonstrate a few different softbox lighting setups that you can try yourself.
Check out our blog post about understanding softboxes and how to use them:
visualeducation.com/lighting-...
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I'm on a limited budget as photography is a hobby. A medium soft box, a grid, and a white reflector are my main "studio" lights. What can be done with the bare minimum is amazing Imagination and experimentation can work wonders. The amount of light control a soft box gives you opens up a lot of lighting possibilities.
Art of photography is amazing
I am probably not going to get a softbox any time soon - because I prefer natural light and for other reasons - but I watch and share your videos because they make me think about light differently and, for me, that is half the battle in getting the desired results.
I wish I could afford a better camera than I have, but I can't, so I may as well do the best I can with what I have.
I appreciate the videos Mr. Taylor. Thank you.
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Except of beeing the great photographer Karl Taylor is the perfect tutor. He poses the most important question in the process of teching: "Don't ask me how?! I ask you why?!"
A cool short video but I learn't quite a bit that made me think more, sometimes that's all you need.
wow great video
Wow!! Amazing tips Karl!! Thanks for alll your help!!!
Cool video nice
My fav trick was turning softbox into hardbox in one of your videos with other photographer and head of Budda.
Quick question. Can I use a softbox when I am filming in the day? I do have a bit of light coming into my room in the daytime but not enough. Can I use a softbox light to boost the light a bit more in the daytime?
yes
Thanks for the video! What is a good soft box when your on location not in the studio for beginner?
guys i think its a highlight from the live stream . so if you missed that then no need to be mean
Hi Karl, nice review; what do you think about 85cm softbox on a ad400pro, ez glow (beauty dish) or ads085s with or without internal diffusers (tedious to handle) ? what about magbox 66cm with focus diffuser ? what about westcott rapidbox 66cm i see in lot of tutos now with FJ400.
Hi Marc, that's a lot to throw out there. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with those models, but there's only one thing you need to concern yourself with and that is the light at the front diffuser should be as homogenous as possible for it to be an effective softbox. Having a few sizes is advantageous but if you can only have one then go big because that gives you the softest light and you can always mask it down or move it further away if you need smaller.
Hi Karl, what do you do about very large softboxes. I find my 6x4 feet softbox is too heavy for the strobe bracket and it is always falling off the angle that I set it.
Get a heavy duty stand.
Please talk the position of shoft box, hight, distance & angel
Karl nice ad, probably nice video. I will wait until you add more shows and then i will re subscribe. I got some nice info from the video :D , thank you for that. It would be nice to see you like back in the day where you where using elastic bands to put 4-5 speed lights together.
As we found out unfortunately strapping 4 speedlites together with transmitters usually ends up as expensive as one cheap to medium studio light and it's far easier to work with a studio light and their choice of modifiers.
@@VisualEducationStudio yes, i got to the same conclusion.
Here I was learning and then all of a sudden some calypso house music came on in the middle and found it very hard to track with what you were saying
Hi, I'm glad you were enjoying this video and able to extract something from it, although this video is actually just a trailer for a full workshop that happened on our website a year or two ago which is why as a trailer it's been jazzed up a bit with music. I've just run through the video to check and I can only find that the music comes up in-between the talking to match in with the titles? If you're interested our full classes on our platform don't have music in the class, I hope that helps. All the best from Visual Education.
Click bait.
I was looking for an actual video about lighting techniques, but all I got was an ad for info that's already on UA-cam
Click the link in his description for an in depth blog on softboxes. Very well done! Informative!
You won't find this information on UA-cam, the information in this live show is well beyond the knowledge of most youtubers. Sometimes in life Stephan you just have to pay to get the best stuff and as we only charge £14 per month and you get access to this and every other live show and course we've ever made in the last 10 years I'd say it's pretty good value. Certainly our thousands of existing members thinks so.
@@VisualEducationStudio "the information in this live show is well beyond the knowledge of most youtubers"... little cocky aren't we. There are youtubers just as good if not better then you and share the same info for free on their channels. $14 is cheap but that $14 adds up over time. You can still get the same information elsewhere on youtube for free and use the money saved to put towards building your kit. Frankly no one is gonna learn anything unless they actually go and do it themselves anyway. Them paying you to watch you use lighting equipment they dont have or cant afford is a waist of money. Maybe if you used equipment that the majority of your views use you may have a better reaction from them and may actually show a perceived value of your educational fees, cause they will be able to connect with you better as you are using equipment they can relate to. I dont use a huge Broncolor parabolic, I dont shoot Hasselblad, I dont use Wescott. So there is nothing for me to relate with you. You can say the technique or the same principles apply till you are blue in the face but they dont. Doing the exact same technique as you with different equipment will not yield the same outcome.
@@eccentricsmithy2746 I don't think it is cocky and neither would you if you watched this full live show. I fully agree that no one will learn anything unless they do it themselves but we provide them the awareness and knowledge to put it into practise and it's the very highest level of knowledge based on my experience and 25 plus years as a professional. You should however be able to get past the fancy gear and use a little creative thinking? You sound like a bright person and I'd think that in a show about softboxes for example you'd realise that it could be any light inside them from bowens, elinchrom to godox and even speedlites and the results will be pretty similar but you also have to appreciate that a large part of our audience are also the customers of those that sell the Paras and other pro tools so we also deliver training for them too. In fact across our platform we have training for, compact cameras, 35mm users, elinchrom, speedlites and even no lights at all as well as the fancy stuff but you are making assumptions as an outsider and only viewing stuff you've perceived from social media not what you have experienced inside our platform. In it we also demonstrate side by side comparisons of the same shot taken with different kit and different gear, hell I even turn out shots with desk lamps and some home made kit just to prove the physics. In fact I'm so confident that you will learn something that if you sign up for a month and then honestly come to me directly and say you didn't, I'll give you your money back.
Ignore these bozos. They’ve got nowt better to do than write a poorly executed stream of consciousness telling you why you, the successful, professional photographer and educator ‘are wrong’. Laughable.
Love you Taylor , But i prefer real human models. Plastic and real human skin is uncompayrable
It was absolutely crucial that we used Stiffanie for this one as the lighting demonstrations required total consistency. We have hundreds of other tutorials with real models!
Karl Taylor got it