How would you like to get professional-looking flash photos
without carrying around a lot of gear? Stay right here, we have the answer for you.
So you went out, you bought your first shoe mount flash for your camera,
but you're still not completely satisfied with the results? Here in my
hand, on top of the flash, we have a little secret weapon, it's a light
modifier. Here is the Altura Photo 6x5 Softbox Diffuser. Typically when you
place a shoe mount flash on top of your camera, pointed at your subject matter,
take your photo, it's not going to give you a very flattering light for your
subject matter. It's gonna be harsh the shadows are gonna be very distinct, it's
gonna give you a lot of glare off your subjects skin, so this is where light
modifiers come to play. Here we have attached to our flash the Altura Photo
Softbox Diffuser and this is designed to give you a more natural, more pleasing
looking light source by diffusing the flashes harsh light. What's really great
about the softbox is that it's compact, its lightweight, it's easy to use and set
up and it will give you some great results. She softbox diffuser measures
six inches by five inches and it's a one size fits all so it fits all the
standard flashes from Altura Photo, from Canon, from Nikon and from Sony,
let's head over to studio so I can go over some of its great features and show
you how to use it. The Altura Photo 6x5 softbox diffuser for your shoe mount
flash comes provided with a zippered protective carrying pouch. As you can
tell, it's flat which makes it very portable, it fits in almost all camera
cases so it's easy to carry around wherever you go. Let's see how to install
the Softbox diffuser to your flash. Installation is quick and easy. The Softbox
diffuser features an elastic strap to tighten around the flash head, so what
you're gonna do first is unfold the Softbox diffuser and then you're going
to go ahead and slip it over the flash head, once it's attached to the flash
head you're going to take the elastic strap and you're going to tighten it
down, now on the interior of the Softbox diffuser you'll notice
that there's a rubbery grip material, this is going to help protect the flash
head itself from getting scratched but it's also gonna keep the softbox from
slipping off your flash head. So if we take a look inside the Softbox
diffuser, you're gonna notice the reflective silver aligning, now this is
gonna help maximize the light output from your flash and it's gonna force
more light from the diffusion panel. For additional diffusion Altura Photo has
included an extra diffusion panel, now all you have to do is remove or detach
the diffusion panel from one side and reattach it to the other side, now this
is going to help reduce the chances of hotspots. Now that we have it attached
we're ready to take some pictures and in the next part we're going to show you
how to take some beautiful looking portraits using the Altura Photo
Softbox diffuser. Now the great thing about this diffuser is that once it's attached
it's very easy to use, you can use it in either TTL or manual mode, the Softbox diffuser
diffuser will do its job either way. Now this type of diffuser is meant to be
pointed at your subject matter, so there's no need to bounce or tilt and
also, once you add this to your flash, you're going to notice the difference
right away, you can even get close to your subject matter as long as your lens
focusing distance allows you and get really beautiful photos. As you can see
from our sample photos you get a really big difference using the Altura Photo Softbox
diffuser from not using the diffuser on your flash. Now this diffuser,
you don't have to use it only for portraits but it can use for macro, for
events, any type of photos that you need to get a more beautiful light source for.
So if you're seriously interested in improving your flash photography, take a
closer look at this Altura Photo 6x5 softbox diffuser, in addition to this
softbox there are two larger sizes from Altura Photo and if you're looking
for more information on that, click on the link below. If this video helped you
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area come by say hello at the Digital Goja showroom. Adam here, keep on shooting.
I'll catch you in the next video folks.