Rolando Gomez. Rolando Gomez's Lighting for Glamour Photography: Techniques for Digital Photographers. 2010

changing film types, or emulsions, like switching from the now discontinued Kodak E100S transparency film to the Kodak E100SW fi ...

L 3. LIGHT MODIFIERS. Light modifiers come in many shapes and forms, including snoots, softboxes, strip boxes, beauty dishes, re ...

will want to use a sweeter, softer, more forgiving light source like a Chimera OctaPlus 57 or a large Chimera Super Pro Plus sof ...

then I would utilize a medium Chimera Super Pro Plus softbox, a compromise between a small and large light modifier or final lig ...

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Scrims. While photographers often see scrims as an opaque or porous material used to reduce light, usually in fractions of a sto ...

Placing the modifiers out of the camera frame but close to the bride helps subtract some of the light hitting the bride’s dress. ...

believe.) Traditionally, light would be passed through a gobo, which had a pattern, and this pattern would be projected onto the ...

Sometimes photographers will take a black foamcore board and attach it to a stand and call this a flag too. Still other photogra ...

Softboxes. Softboxes come in various sizes, from small to large, and the exact measure- ments of those options varies from one b ...

not useful for glamour work. Personally, I like to use white small or medium softboxes. When I need to use a large softbox, I go ...

order 1-, 3-, and 5-degree grids, but they are harder to find and more expen- sive.) The smaller the number, the more narrow the ...

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instance, if you took a 4x6-foot softbox equipped with louvers and closed off^1 / 4 of the left and right sides, you’d be left w ...

While many folks call this honeycomb surface in front of the light a “grid,” it’s not like metal grids for 7-inch metal reflecto ...

great for illuminating cars, motorcycles, and for providing a narrow swath of light where needed. When working with dark backgro ...

For this image of model Cal Lilly, I used the 300-watt modeling lamps from two Hensel In- tegra 500 Pro Plus units to illuminate ...

Octaboxes. Octaboxes come in 3-, 5-, and 7-foot versions, al- though larger octa-shaped modifiers are available for high-end lig ...

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There are a couple of other things that a softbox has going for it: its rec- tangular shape better mimics the shape of the human ...