From the course: Improving Your Photography and Portraits with Lighting Modifiers

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Modifying a softbox with a grid

Modifying a softbox with a grid

- So now what we want to do here is modify the light a little bit further to where we're just using a beam of light. And this next shot's going to be a perfect shot of a beautiful queen. This is Erin. - Hi. - So, in order to get that type of a look what we need to do is add a modifier on top of our modifier. So we already talked about the strip box. And how the strip box has that nice beam of light. Now what we want to do is add a grid to this strip box. And what the grid is going to do for us, is it's going to take that light and position it even further for us. So, let me put it in position. Now notice, I have Erin sitting because when we're working on this here, I don't want her getting her back muscles all cramped up when we're bending. Or if she's standing for a long period of time I don't want her legs to wear out. And if that happens her facial expression is not going to be what we want. So we have a seat off to the side for her. She'll take her mark. She'll stand. Good. That's…

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