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Refining lighting using light modifiers

Refining lighting using light modifiers

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Refining lighting using light modifiers

So specifically, would you prefer a strong, or a continuous light for certain kinds of scenarios? >> Well, once we're past choosing a color temperature, then it becomes the quality of light that the fixture produces. And a strobe light is basically a reflector with an open face. And we can modify that a bit with barn doors, and we can put snoods on them. And we can also put grid on them honeycomb grids. But because it's an open-faced fixture, it's a parabolic reflector behind it. Not all of the light rays are collimated they're not all lined up together. So it makes a much harder control; it's much like if you were thinking in terms of a hose and when you take a hose and you allow the water to squirt straight out of it, the water's collimated, it's all going in a straight line. You can take your hand and deflect the water pretty easily at that point, but if you had a spray coming out of that end of that horse, putting your hand in the middle of the spray. The spray is still going to…

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