Octa Softbox – Part 2
This is a start of a new series Peter will be doing showing how he uses an array of light modifiers in the studio and the different looks and effects he gets out of each of them.
His 5ft Octabox is one of his favourite modifiers for a number of reasons, and is one of the best tools for teaching others how light works. Throughout this tutorial he shows you all the different looks he can get out of it but simply moving the light or the model.
One comment on “Octa Softbox – Part 2”
I’ve always tried to feather the light. Most of my shots were done in a friends kitchen that was 6x3m with 2.4m ceilings. We’d tend to set up a 120cm octa to the left or right of the model. The octa would be raised slightly above eye/head height and pointed slightly downwards, with the octa feathered away from the model almost perpendicular.
One kind of annoying thing was when doing this trying to use a white paperbackdrop trying to get a gradient with dark at the top of the shot going to white on the floor was we would get a triangle of shadow hitting the softbox side of thebackrop on our images. so we would end up with white on the left of the shot but a triangle shaped shadow corner on the right side.