Lighting intimidates every person getting into photography. It is a whole other skill to be learned but once you get into it, it can become addicting because of all the creative possibilities you open yourself up to. Relying on natural light can be great if you can get the right light. But as artists, we can always create our own. And to shape the light to get exactly the look that we want, we need modifiers. It is best to imagine light as a stream coming out of a hose. If you change the shape of the head and the direction, the stream itself also changes accordingly.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at a bunch of light modifiers we recommend. For more, we recommend that you check out the Lighting Section of our Reviews Index.
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The Gary Fong Lightsphere is either the bread and butter of a photographer or the bane of their existence depending on whom you talk to and how long the person has been in the industry. That’s why we’re expecting lots of mixed reactions about the latest additions to the system.
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It’s been a while that I (a landscape photographer) has heard the name Gary Fong, but that doesn’t mean that they’re sitting still. Gary Fong is known for their flash accessories and diffusers, like the very hackable Lightsphere. They have just recently announced the Gamma Diffuser for the Sony HVL-F43AM and HVL-F58AM flashes.
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Okay, so I’m the newest writer here at The Phoblographer and I haven’t personally reviewed much gear other than my own but I do still have some favorite items in mind for you guys. I’m sure next year around this time I’ll have a ton of things to recommend but for now I have 3 items that are on my mind.
Read on to check out my recommendations.
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The Cardinal Rule of photography is that boredom leads to creativity. The other day while bored in my room, I started playing around with the Photogenic SB2432 softbox. It’s an awesome light modifier being 24 x 32″. Then I tried to figure out how I could get a speedlite in there for extra portability. After some very quick experimentation, the result is something delivers security to your flash and softbox while delivers some really amazing light output.
So how did I do it?
