Grids in Single Light Studio Photography

Video Transcript

"In this segment I'm going to illuminate Sandy with a grid. The nice thing about a grid its a nice spot light. It very concentrated. And its also its relatively soft. Depending on how far away you have them from the background or where you place the grid, you can either go from the side which produces pretty harsh shadows. I usually like to put them relatively pretty close to straight in and coming down. I'm using a twenty degree grid. And I like the twenty degree grid because it provides a relatively tight spot that's pretty well diffused. You know you might depending on your preferences prefer a wider grid such as a fifty or a sixty. You know cover a wider area. Or you can even use a smaller one such as a ten or a three to get a really tight spot. But that's really up to you and your own preferences. I'm actually moving the light also up and down to kind of change the shadow. The lower I have the light the higher the shadow gets in the background. And just depending on the look you're looking for you know that's just something you want to place and, you know, think about. You know if you bring the flash all the way up and very high you can eliminate the shadow altogether. So just really, you know, just depends on what the mood that you're, that you're trying to achieve."