Photography Studio Equipment: Specialized Soft Boxes

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"In this clip we're going to talk about a couple of specialized soft boxes. This one I'm holding is called a strip light. It is, puts a narrow beam of light out and controls the spill of light side to side. It also puts a nice thin highlight on reflective surface. As you can see, it's considerably smaller than the normal size soft boxes. This one here is called a halo. This is used a lot in portraiture and glamor type photography, and the reason it's constructed like this it's because this part right here will be closest to your subject and, and give a brighter spot but the light that's coming right here can bounce off a reflector, like we have here, and add light coming up from the, from the underneath the subject. That eliminates shadows and gives you a softer feel. Okay, to attach the halo to the light you want to make sure that the mono light is off. On this particular one it tilts in its top and it comes in at the bottom, and then you release the clips and it stays. This thing has a speed ring that allows you to rotate the soft boxes you need to. On this particular one it's not as important as the square ones, because you want to make, like, a horizontal beam of light rather than, rather than a vertical, and this allows you to easily do that. The speed rings are sold specifically to the type of light that you use because they all have a different type of connectors and the soft box manufacturer will sell those to you."