Building a Photography Diffusion Panel: Cutting Fabric

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"On this clip we're just going to do our final marking on where our cut lines are going to be and then we're going to cut it out to size. This is a real simple thing. I'm just using the PVC as a straight edge. I've got it lined up front and back to the marks I made before. I hold it in place. I'm going to do the same thing on the bottom side. Just line our straight edge up, keep it in place, and bring our line down. Ok we're just going to cut along the lines that we drew out with our straight edge; the sharper your scissors the better. It's a good thing to keep a little bit of pressure on both sides of the fabric so it doesn't bunch up on you. Nylon cuts pretty simply. If you're using the rip stop nylon it won't tear and it won't fray as bad as regular nylon. Then we're just going to start on the other side. If you have extra fabric that you're using in this, like I obviously have a lot of extra, I use the same fabric for all types of things. When I'm on location and I need to cut down the intensity of the light I can throw a layer or two of rip stop nylon over the light, make sure your mylars are up because it will burn, and you can actually soften the light a little bit and also cut down on the quantity of light that comes out of your light source. There's our panel that's going to go on our diffusion panel. It's going to be like a large soft box. It gives real soft light and makes our subjects beautiful."