Large Soft Box for Sale

John ...It took several years for me to realize. Digital captures way more detail in the shadows than film did. With film, I shot with a 4x6 softbox as a main and fill was bounced off a white wall-floor-ceiling behind camera. I was just having so much trouble controlling the light like I wanted to. Control of light is a skill every portrait photographer strives to excel in. I just was not "hitting" it with my lighting. It was too broad and non-directional. It finally dawned on me that perhaps my very large light was wrapping too much around my subject. So to the phone I went and ordered a 32" (and did it ever look small, still does) spider light. Now I can twist and turn that smaller source to get the very nuance I desire in my portrait lighting. Along with that I set up a couple 8" dome lights with honeycomb grids for kickers. I found that the translucent packing plastic works perfect to diffuse the harsh light coming out of the kickers. It doesn't make sense, but diffusing the kickers as I have done, retains the focus of the light while still softening. The softer effect is so much nicer for fine portrait work. And the kickers must be feathered away from the subject. I predict that someday, critical lighting will be one of the deciding factors that brings elegance back to portraiture.