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Westcott Introduces the PocketBox Educational Flash Kit

Chris Gampat
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02/29/2012
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Today, Westcott announced that they’ve teamed up with photographer Erin Manning to create the PocketBox softbox designed for hot-shoe flashes. Inside of these modifiers is a silver-reflective surface to help really channel that flash output. For reference, the Photogenic softbox I previously hacked to work with my speedlites has a silver beaded interior: which is a preferred option for many photographers. No word on whether or not the boxes have a beaded interior.

They come in three different varieties:

– The Round PocketBox is 8.5” wide (they liken it to a beauty dish almost)

– The Square PocketBox is 6” x 7” (like most softboxes).

– The Rectangular PocketBox is 8” x 12” is the big bertha of the trio; and designed for photographing couples (not exactly pocket-sized)

When you purchase the kit for $49.90, you get a snazzy instructional video with Photographer Erin Manning.

Here’s a quick intro video to the system

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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