Dave, with decently powerful strobes (eg 400 WS), *most* rooms available to me are going to look like "small rooms". If I am using an umbrella it's because I'm going for high-key, or a well-lit scene, or outdoors where the photo-bomb effect isn't noticed.
Take a look at this pair of photos: http://www.zarias.com/shoot-through-umbrella-vs-softbox/ Clearly a softbox in a small room works just fine. That's why softboxen are so highly coveted. It's why I prefer to shoot with them. On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:04 PM, David Parsons <parsons.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > I find it much easier to use the inverse square law and the aperture > to make the problem go away. If you are shooting in a room that is > small enough to bounce a lot of light around, you will have problems > with most modifiers. > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> >> I've got a couple of shoot through umbrellas that work pretty well, with the >> minor issue that since they bounce a lot of light back the way it came, they >> work almost more like light grenades, throwing photons indiscriminately in >> every direction. >> >> I just realized that with the clamps on my white lightning, I could cut a >> hole in some posterboard to mount it on the flash, run the shaft of the >> umbrella through it, and end up with a light source that is fairly diffuse >> and pretty much only shoots light forward. I'd rather have a big softbox, >> but that would cost $50 or $100, and a sheet of posterboard is closer to $5. >> Less, if I use one of the beat up pieces that I bought for backdrops a few >> years ago. >> >> I'm curious whether anyone has tried something like this, and if so, how >> well it works, or rather what it works well, or poorly, for. >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > David Parsons Photography > http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com > > Aloha Photographer Photoblog > http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
