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Old 20-10-08, 13:35
David Smith David Smith is offline  
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Originally Posted by yelvertoft View Post
Umbrellas give different effects to soft boxes. A soft box, not surprisingly, gives a softer lighting effect. A brolly can still give edges to the lighting. I suspect the kit you mention is supplied with one of each so you can access either lighting effect, depending on what you want to do. .
One thing I can't grasp (I know it will become clear as I experiment) is-if it needs 2 light sources and the umbrella & softbox have different qualities-why do they mix them as against 2 x umbrellas or 2x softboxes ?
Would 2 x sofboxes be better than 1 of each??
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