{"id":4065,"date":"2014-08-13T08:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2014-08-15T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T07:27:18","slug":"5-in-1-reflector-home-studio-essentials-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"5 in 1 Reflector \u2013 Home Studio Essentials \u2013 Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HSE-EP4-Final\"<\/a>There’s 1000’s of photographic gadgets, gizmos and accessories that you can spend your hard earned money on and whilst many are utterly useless, there are a few that are indispensable. Towards the top of my list of “must have” accessories is the 5 in 1 reflector.<\/p>\n

A five in one reflector is so called because it has five surfaces. There’s the white and silver surfaces for bouncing light, a gold side for adding adding warm light (and usually best avoided), a black surface to block light and a translucent surface to diffuse light. Best of all it’s one of the least expensive bits of kit you can buy.<\/p>\n

In this video I use\u00a0the silver surface to bounce light and fill in troublesome shadows. In this case the shadows are caused by a wide brimmed hat. One way would be to add a second light but if that’s not available a reflector can fill in very nicely… and yes, that pun was intended!<\/p>\n

[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TYQh9MNC3Is&list=PL821B7D720DEA39FA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

Gear used in this video (Links back to Adorama)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flashpoint StreakLight 360 Ws Creative Collection<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Includes flash, battery, trigger, boom etc)<\/p>\n

Westcott Apollo Orb Softbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Westcott Basics 5 in 1 reflector<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Canon 5D Mark 2\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Canon 24-105L\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If like me you like to keep a visual record of you’re lighting set ups then this image should come in very handy.<\/p>\n

\"Reflector-Lighting-Diagram\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s 1000’s of photographic gadgets, gizmos and accessories that you can spend your hard earned money on and whilst many are utterly useless, there are a few that are indispensable. Towards the top of my list of “must have” accessories is the 5 in 1 reflector. A five in one reflector is so called because … Continue reading 5 in 1 Reflector \u2013 Home Studio Essentials \u2013 Episode 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[70,23,145,36,37,78,24,3],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-canon","tag-featured","tag-lighting","tag-photography","tag-portrait","tag-speedlight","tag-spotlight","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}