2 – Position the speedlite so that the flash head is facing toward the back of the softbox, and set the zoom on the speedlite to the widest setting (to spread the light to the max). 3 – Don’t point the softbox directly at the subject. Rather, position it so that the light falls slightly in front of the subject.

RAW files can be compressed without losing information. In a pinhole camera, the image seen in the camera will be inverted.

Best Softboxes for Speedlight

• Fotodiox F60 Quick-Collapse Softbox.
• Neewer Bowens Mount Softbox.
• Neewer 32-inches Octagonal Softbox.
• Altura Flash Diffuser Softbox.
• waka Flash Diffuser Light Speedlight Softbox.
• Neewer Round Universal Magnetic Ring Flash.
• Fotocreate Collapsible Strip Light Softbox.
• Westcott Rapid Box Softbox.

2 Answers. You can use a small 9 inch softbox which fits on the flash head or you can also use spedlight diffusers. You can use your speedlight at full power inside a large softbox also, the only constraint in doing that is the distance or the guide number of your speedlight.

The front of the Octabox should be parallel to the floor above your subject. The subject should be placed at the edge of the octa, even back from it slightly. This allows the light to wrap down and around the body. A reflector should be used to aim light back into the face as well to fill in shadows.

Setting up an Octabox

1. Insert two adjacent sticks in the ring.
2. Place the ring (facing upwards) in the cloth (spread out on the floor or a table) and pull the power cord through the hole in the cloth.
3. Insert the two adjacent sticks (mentioned in the first step) into two loops without Velcro straps.

Octaboxes for Portraits While you could say that an octobox is a type of softbox, an octobox offers specific advantages in portrait photography scenarios. Octoboxes have a circular shape that gives portrait subjects a round-shaped shine in their eyes in your final result.

But first, let’s define the octabox or as photographers fondly call her, the Octa. The Octa is (usually) a fairly big source of light that has an octagonal front surface. Unlike a softbox for example, which has a square or rectangular surface.

Softboxes and umbrellas condense and focus the 180-degree beam angle of the light source, no matter what size they are. When used at the same distance, a larger umbrella will have a wider beam angle than a smaller umbrella, and it’s important to match its size with the size of the subject.

True parabolic modifiers reflect light from a single point into parallel or collimated beams of light. The question is how this impacts the quality of light in a larger modifier. Both modifiers had the light source coming through the back of the modifier facing the subject.

The purpose of a softbox is to create a large and as homogenous light source as possible (meaning that the entire front surface of the softbox should be as evenly illuminated as possible).