Posted by Martin Heffels on 11/04/06 19:41

On 3 Nov 2006 07:45:44 -0800, "nobody special" <msu1049321@aol.com> wrote:

>You can make a big softlight cheaply, using a tapered box (truncated
>4-sided pyramid) made from gaffer tape and white foam core and a piece
>of toughspun diffusion,

Toughspun doesn't create a real softlight. It is merely reducing the light
and softening it a bit. You would need real diffusion to get a decent
softlight (like Rosco/Lee 216).
I recently was on a show where the gaffer made a nice softbox out of
cardbox, with 216 in the front, and a permanent eggcrate made of
gaffertape. Simple and cheap solution, but it worked quite well.

cheers

-martin-
--

[Back to original message]