Video: Soft Box Sizes in Single Light Studio Photography

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Smaller soft boxes create a single spotlight in studio photography. Find out about lighting effects achieved with different sized light boxes with expertise from a professional photographer in this free photography video.

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In this segment I want to talk about the different sizes in soft boxes. What I have on here is an extra small soft box and I just kind of wanted to show that this is a lot spottier and a lot harsher than the other soft box I was using, but all the same things apply in terms of whether you have it parallel and getting a little bit more wrap, directly in if you want it a little bit more contrasty, and distant from the subject, but as you can see on the background it leaves a much harder shadow. You are dealing with definitely a harsher light source and you're going to see it. The larger the soft box usually the nicer sort of very soft window light you get. I'm going to bring in a white card on this. A white card, same thing as with the big ones it just helps illuminate, even out the illumination.

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Soft Box Sizes in Single Light Studio Photography

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