Little Light

Grids are pretty cool little things. They are a light mod that constricts the light beam like a snoot, while still having the beautiful fall off of a big light mod.

This is going to be a really short post because I have to get up for work in 4 hours...sleep in needed.

Here's what a grid looks likes when a strobe is fired through it.

It's hard to tell, but on the edges of the strobe head you can see the fall off of light in the holes. As you get further away from the light, the holes get less and less light. This translates to the very soft fall off of light that a gridded light source has. The edges of the light source actually have less light emitting. Unlike a bit light mod that has softness because its own light fills in the shadows in makes (including the edges of the light patten) a gridded light just has less light on the edges. It's pretty ingenious.

To shoot this, I had to use f22 and a .9 ND filter. The strobe was at minimum power, but pointed right at the lens it was still really bright. For those of you who don't know, ND means neutral density. Those filters block light to the camera.

All for tonight, see you tomorrow.