Pic Request: Flash Softboxes

[Mario.]

Looking for some photo samples of people using strobe flashes (430's, 580's, etc. ) with something like a mini softbox. Looking to purchase but want to see how the lighting looks with it. :)

[Wilt]

Here's a comparison of native flash lens vs. putting diffusion material over the lens precisely the size of the lens vs. Wescott Micro Apollo softbox

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3352828&postcount=10

and at a greater shooting distance

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3353447&postcount=19

[AginKajun]

Looking for some photo samples of people using strobe flashes (430's, 580's, etc. ) with something like a mini softbox. Looking to purchase but want to see how the lighting looks with it. :)

Here's a couple the first with an Wescott Apollo mini softbox, the second with the lumiquest 80-20 bounced off a ceiling in a small room.

[Wilt]

I might point out the rather sharp edges of the shadow in the first shot from AginKajun is due especially to the closeness of the subject to the wall behind. Compare those shadows with my examples shown, where the 'subject' (ruler) is about two feet in front of the background where the shadow falls! Yet both of our examples are with the Wescott Micro Apollo!

[cskn0125]

heres a thread that may also be helpful.

http://www.paulcbuff.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1202