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Uploaded by on May 25, 2010

Adorama Photography TV presents: This week we take a look at the HonlPhoto Speed Snoot and the Gary Fong Lightsphere collapsible. Both products help you get better results from your speedlights.

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  • @CelosTV watch Jared Polin's videos on youtube, really good for beginners through to pros

  • Where can I get some tips on photography. I wanna get into it more.

  • Do 3rd party diffusers/snoots have the same effect?

  • I have a Speed Snoot, the bad thing about it is causes heavy weight on that front part and tends to tip over if its off-camera, if its on camera its just heavy.

  • I cant get my link to work so whatever. If you feel like checking my flickr the name is mrbubbles916. There is a photo of my cousins eye taken with my flash bounced onto the ceiling and wall behind me. The diffuser would have done nothing. Now...im not talking about anything but those sto-fen diffusers. I think the gary fong light spheres have a completely different result.

  • @simonsgl I see what you are saying but why bother with the diffuser at all if you are bouncing the flash? The point of bouncing flash is to create soft shadows which means the diffuser is adding nothing to this.

  • @littlec916 The flash diffusers actually DO work... you just need to understand what it is they do! You are right in thinking that they do not make any difference to the light thrown forwards onto the subject BUT... the face of the diffuser is positioned about 2-3cm in front of the flash head and the surrounding body and some of the front face of the diffuser throws some scattered light around the room which is bounced onto the subject, softening the shadows caused by the flash.

  • @Mydecember1285 the problem with those flash "diffusers" is they really dont do anything. You may think it does but physics will disagree. The ONLY way to get softer light is to INCREASE the surface area of the flash. Bouncing flash off the ceiling creats a very large light source with a very large surface area. Putting one of those Stofen diffusers only lowers the total flash output. Hard light has hard shadows. Soft light should have very soft to almost no shadows at all.

  • is the light-sphere worth the buy .. i am looking and getting one.. want to know if its worth the $60. bucks

  • How about a Stofen? Its pretty useful too.

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