How to Adjust Photoflex Umbrellas
Photographers must carefully control light to achieve their desired exposures. There are many tools and techniques to accomplish this, such as reflected light, which provides a softer, indirect light that avoids the hard, unflattering shadows created by direct lighting. Many photographers use umbrellas in their lighting setup for a direct, controllable reflective surface. Photoflex produces a line of adjustable umbrellas whose shape you can change to suit your reflection needs in a few steps.
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Instructions
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Setup
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Undo the Velcro strap holding a Photoflex umbrella closed.
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Grip the metal post of the umbrella beneath the metal collar with one hand and push the metal collar up the post with your the opposite hand.
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Push the metal collar up the post until it locks in place above the locking tab on the post.
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Locate and loosen the umbrella support bracket knob in a light stand. These brackets generally are located at the top of the light stand or on the front of the lighting instrument itself.
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Insert the post of the Photoflex umbrella into the umbrella support bracket on the stand.
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Tighten the knob to secure the umbrella post in place.
Adjustment
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Locate the four spines of the Photoflex umbrella sewn into the fabric. These spines do not move.
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Locate the remaining four spines of the umbrella that do move.
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Remove the ends of the mobile spines from their receptacle holes in the end-caps at the edge of the umbrella fabric.
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Slide the free ribs to their adjacent stationary ribs and insert their tips into the empty receptacle holes.
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Fold back the loose umbrella fabric formerly held in place by the mobile spines and snap them in place. The Photoflex umbrella now has a more rectangular shape suitable for wider reflection.
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Tips & Warnings
Experiment with different orientations of the mobile spines to achieve the desired shape of the reflector.
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