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Really useful for 'bouncing' light onto a subject
Photography is the art of capturing light and sometimes the scene's lighting isn't what you want: too dim or too harsh or...
Flashlights can be very harsh, even when reflected off the ceiling. This enables you to reflect natural light onto your subject, or make the sunlight from a window etc more diffuse. Detachable covers enable you to add a golden yellow tint to the light, have a shinier but - because it's not entirely flat - textured reflection, or use it to block light instead.
I am amused at the instruction manual which only tells you how to get the opened reflector back in its bag: it's the classic 'twist into a figure eight, then compress into three circular layers' method for things like this and folding flying disks and hair catchers and...
You'll get it wrong the first few times, but it becomes very easy with practice.
Flashlights can be very harsh, even when reflected off the ceiling. This enables you to reflect natural light onto your subject, or make the sunlight from a window etc more diffuse. Detachable covers enable you to add a golden yellow tint to the light, have a shinier but - because it's not entirely flat - textured reflection, or use it to block light instead.
I am amused at the instruction manual which only tells you how to get the opened reflector back in its bag: it's the classic 'twist into a figure eight, then compress into three circular layers' method for things like this and folding flying disks and hair catchers and...
You'll get it wrong the first few times, but it becomes very easy with practice.
13/11/2023