Hello boys 'n girls!
Time to be a PITA and ask some, probably, really annoying questions.
The first question is about snoots and grids. I read up on why to choose either (or both), but I don't quite understand why the grid works how it does...
Obviously the grid is the top image and the snoot the bottom. I haven't had physics, so made the yellow lines I drew are total balonie but that's the way I figured the light beams would reach the most outer edges of whatever it's lighting. My questions is: does the pink not 'work' or something? Because if the light bounces, it can reflect at a much more diffuse angle, right? Or is it, because the grid is black, that it doesn't reflect much light and the light it reflects is almost negligible.
Second question:
Umbrella's!
Recently I picked up my first flash (YN-560) and I really love fiddling around with it, but a friend of mine asked me (Raspberry-rouge.com asked me to shoot her (with a camera, not a gun) some time. She has a blog (Raspberry-Rouge.com DISCLAIMER: Only for females who are obsessed with fashion!) and because it's getting dark earlier she asked me if I could do a shoot in the dusk.
Basically, it sucks for her I'm a bum and can't afford anything expensive, so my options are pretty limited on lighting and diffusing. I pretty much settled on an umbrella setup (unless anyone has a better solution), but while I wait for 'em to get shipped I have a few questions.
I ordered two white shoot-through umbrella's, because I figured it would be a good starting point (and they were the cheapest
), but I'm also interested in reflecting umbrella's. I scavenged the interwebz for the differences but a lot of the articles I read didn't have a clear view on when to use which or which was better. Maybe someone here can?
Now, when I start using my umbrella's it's probably gonna be a bummer how hard it is (not the only thing hard in our hobby), so maybe someone could answer these questions:
- As a guideline I've read that shoot-throughs let about 2/3 of the light coming out of the strobe through, is this about right?
- I've got a lovely zoom feature on my flash, but how does this work with umbrella's? Of course it diffuses the light and makes it much more soft because it's a bigger source, but should I use the zoomnumber I'd normally use or should I go wider/narrower? It would save me a lot of time if I knew this beforehand.
Maybe the next picture would make it a little bit clearer what I mean, which lines does it follow?
My questions so far, maybe something will pop up in my head but then I'll just edit this post or ask in another post.
Thanks a lot in advance.
