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<p>[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 9299838, member: 77814"]"diffused" light</p><p>This is considered "hard light" vs "soft light"</p><p><a href="https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/portrait-lighting.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/portrait-lighting.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/portrait-lighting.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>is normally when there is a photo umbrella put over a direct flash in photography. This prevents the light rays from creating "harsh" shadows on a subject. As if you were to go outside on a bright day with no clouds. You have dark shadows with clear edges.</p><p>That versus going out on a bright day but with a cloud layer. This cloud layer prevents "direct" light and your shadows are lighter and have fuzzy edges.</p><p><br /></p><p>On my studio lights I have diffusers which are basically like a white shower curtain preventing a direct light to the subject as shown here as I pull the main diffuser back so you can see the LED light system behind it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1522028[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>for my lighting I can have a one, or two or three layers of diffusing depending how "soft" I want to make the light. Plus I can add reflective, 2 lights, or more. But this all gets rather expensive, rather quickly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 9299838, member: 77814"]"diffused" light This is considered "hard light" vs "soft light" [URL]https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/portrait-lighting.htm[/URL] is normally when there is a photo umbrella put over a direct flash in photography. This prevents the light rays from creating "harsh" shadows on a subject. As if you were to go outside on a bright day with no clouds. You have dark shadows with clear edges. That versus going out on a bright day but with a cloud layer. This cloud layer prevents "direct" light and your shadows are lighter and have fuzzy edges. On my studio lights I have diffusers which are basically like a white shower curtain preventing a direct light to the subject as shown here as I pull the main diffuser back so you can see the LED light system behind it. [ATTACH=full]1522028[/ATTACH] for my lighting I can have a one, or two or three layers of diffusing depending how "soft" I want to make the light. Plus I can add reflective, 2 lights, or more. But this all gets rather expensive, rather quickly.[/QUOTE]
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