Love you Kelsey !!!

no problem i had the same questions a few months ago but the internet is full of great stuff if you look for them good luck

thanks i’m going to read it 

Thanks a lot for explaining all these
i really appreciate your help
regards,
duke

Watch Episode 234:

/watch?v=4QaCI_SUc5c

Thank you

Continuous light sources offer more flexibility and usually result in more aesthetically pleasing pictures, but most light sources can give off too much heat for certain situations. Strobe lighting combines the best of both lighting modes and, if used correctly, can lead to truly spectacular images.

google “flash or continuous light” and read the article on eHow dot com it’s good

well there is no “better” there are advantages and disadvantages to each. if you want to use the light for a long time, then continuous light bulbs are the best because they are more durable than the modeling lights. you can use up to 10 light bulbs in one softbox and you can customize them anyhow you want but you have only one modeling light in a strobe. but sometimes light bulbs can get VERY hot and warm up the environment this is why they leave ACs on in big studios. Cont. lights are cheaper.

Thanks so what is better? using flash or continues light?

Thanks a lot 

It would be great to have the metadata on each shot

sharon is gorgeous!~

Another great video, Mark! You do a wonderful job at explaining things.

fantastic once again mark

Didn’t he say it quite clearly? “We could spend hours going through each individual light modifier”. Obviously not every modifier was included in this episode and the reason makes total sense, too.

Um, Adorama is the obvious answer (and has excellent customer reviews you can use as a guide). The real answer, though, is “almost everywhere”—every large brick-and-mortar photo store will have something, and you’ll run out of fingers and toes long, long before you run out of online retailers. Most of the lighting makers, like Profoto, Elinchrom and Paul C. Buff, offer kits that include stands, umbrellas and triggers (even the cheap but questionable Chinese ones). They’re everywhere.

They’re worth their own show. They’re the worst—and best—of both worlds. They spill more than they throw (they’re really just a reflective umbrella that leaks enough that you can use them backwards) so like bare bulb you get a lot of “free fill”, and because the distance between the light source and the subject varies across the surface of the umbrella, they have a different lighting pattern (a hotter center and feathered edges, even with the “skirted” ones).

You can never get the reflective surface of an umbrella as close to your subject as you can get the front diffuser of a softbox. (The light stand and flash are in the way.) There will be different fall-off effects at the subject position, so while you can come close, you can’t get the *same* effect, and sometimes the difference is important to the shot. It depends on the look you’re after, and experience will guide you. It might be worth following DC Chavez at Profoto for more info.

No, but they do make hexagonal and octagonal softboxes, and most of the “name” brands offer a front diffuser panel that is a white circle with a black border for their larger units. (You can easily make a black circle mask for the cheapies if you’re working on a budget.)

Very useful as always! Thanks Mark!

You didn’t mention shoot-through umbrellas…any reason why?

In a sense, you’re right. But you need to consider how powerful your flash or strobe is. If you’re using a speedlite then you’ll have a much limited range of options for diffusing your light source.