Photography: Grids

Video Transcript

"In this segment we are going to talk about grids. Grids are another great modifier, they actually act like a spotlight. They go over, just go right over the light, and the honeycomb pattern works to direct the light into a, into a very specific spot, and then also it diffuses the light really nice. The other, grids come in all different kinds of sizes, for all different kinds of reflectors, and also in very different honeycomb patterns. You can get them so they are, you can get them in like; ten degree, twenty degree, this is actually twenty degree here, you can get them in thirty degree, just means the holes in here are wider and it covers a larger area. The nice thing about a grid that I like is that the light is almost as soft as a softbox and when you put it directly on something you get a nice focused spot of soft light, depending on the grid pattern, right on the spot where you want it. The other thing, you can actually throw, if you want a little bit softer, you can throw a piece of diffusion over it, produces a really nice pretty light. You usually use grids when you just, when you want to spotlight something. In a portrait, you tend to use it right on someone's face when you really want it to pop out. You might also use it on like something in the background to make it really stand out. It works a lot better than a snout, a lot of people think that a snout, you know is something that will really focus light. This is what you want to use when you focus light."