what's going on everybody it's shmojoe14 (knock at door) my softbox
did you guys enjoy that opening I had a blast making that thing but it took way
longer than I'd like to admit I was like two days of filming and editing just for
like 15 seconds where this stuff anyway for real this time
what's going on I'm Shmojoe14 today we're gonna be looking at the Godox umbrella
godox godox gadot I'm not sure how to
say that one anyway the Godox umbrella we're gonna go with Godox I'm sure I'm
wrong and I'm sure y'all let me know so originally when I bought my umbrella
lighting I didn't realize one of the things that they're gonna do is light up
the entire room altogether so I got like a really flat looking image going on
here I want to try to separate myself a little bit from the background give it a
little more contrast there's obviously almost no shadows across my face or
anything because I've got both umbrella lights set up to either side of the
camera which is just illuminating the entire room the background everything
else around so what I went ahead and did is actually ordered a softbox now what's
nice about the softbox is that it's gonna envelop the light on the sides and
actually just pump light out the front give me a little bit more directional
light that's kind of what I'm looking for I went ahead and purchased this
softbox on purpose I wanted something that had a center mount pole that would
actually fit into the slot that's already on the light stands I purchased
I didn't want to buy an entire assembly so that's why this one sits before us
now if you guys want to check out my current light kit that I'm using I'll go
ahead and link it down in the description the video is kind of hokey
but you know I'm still really new at this hopefully you can enjoy that one so
this one's a softbox size octa 80 centimeters or 31 and a
half inches for US American types ain't much to it you got a nice case if you
need to be carrying it around velcro strap inside here's our diffusion panel
now I don't know what it's made out of but it appears to be opaque velcro on
all eight sides it's got a slit on each of the eight corners is it corners if
it's eight I don't know I'm gonna say corners y'all can deal with it later
enough about that onward ho last but not least the umbrella itself so this thing
ran me $20.99 took a couple days to get here looks to
be built out of some kind of polyester or something on the outside of it a
description on the things it's high-density nylon and it says it's
to be highly reflective so I'm assuming what they're talking about is the stuff
on the inside here so one of the things I don't like is that the mount rod is
actually shorter than the hub which all the spokes mount to and so it's really
hard to get ahold of it so you have to stick your fingers either inside or push
it from the back to get it started then you can finally get a hold of it and
then push her back also I don't know if it's a bad thing or a good thing but
there is a lot of tension on this so what I've noticed is I push the little
tab to release the hub I pinch my fingers every single time also a giant
side bonus is it stops the aliens from reading my brainwaves
nanu-nanu so if it wasn't obvious from that here we go
light stand rod goes through the hole here and when a mommy umbrella and a
Daddy umbrella love each other very much so that's anyway where the light stand
rod goes comes through zipper on both sides you can tighten it up around the
light stand itself you take the velcro pieces you stick the thing in you kind
of saw in the opening of the video really not rocket surgery here anyway so
the thing feels kind of stout ouch so obviously the next thing is we are get
this thing put on a light stand
dang does it look all super moody in here now it's kind of weird cuz it's a
little bit darker in the room all the way around and by a little bit I mean a
lot we only got the one light on now no fill light no hair light nothing like
that maybe the LED strip from the previous videos looking a little bit
brighter in this video now the thing is too is I'm using the kit lens on this
camera right now we only have a three-and-a-half f-stop so I can't let
as much light in I've got a Yongnuo thirty five millimeter lens on the way
that has an f-stop of two actually so I'm hoping to be able to like let a lot
more light in I had to move the cameras ISO to 1600 now to get the proper
exposure really hoping it's not too grainy looking or anything like that the
soft box itself is off to about a thirty degree angle I'd like to have it at a
forty-five but with the the way it is ain't gonna happen right
now so this is kind of what I'm looking for I want to have high contrast across
my face shadowed on this side lit on the other side not that real flat lighting
like I had earlier with the umbrellas now I'm gonna swap this thing over so
it's directly at my face that way you can see what flat lighting
looks like alright so here's the light actually directly pointed at my face
like I said it shouldn't be a whole lot of shadows going on either side of my
face very flat it's kind of a boring look I wouldn't say it's a moody look by
any means now the thing is that this lighting is gonna work for like makeup
and beauty type videos where you need like real even lighting all the way
across the face you're not looking for that dramatic look or cinematic look
however you guys want to say it thing is to we moved the light actually in closer
so we had to drop the ISO down from the 1600 previous now back to 800 so that's
just something to think about now I want to put the thing directly overhead to
give that interrogation super dramatic type look I told you everything I know
you said you'd let her go this is my interrogation type real dramatic
overhead lighting now camera lady's over here holding the thing on the bed
because we don't actually have a boom or anything like that if you've seen my
previous videos you know that this is actually a bedroom and she's starting to
shake from holding the light so we're gonna go ahead and let her back down now I
really hope this video could help you guys in the decision if you're trying to
look for an umbrella or a softbox or change up your lighting in general let
me know down in the comments if you like the way it's looking
also what are you guys using for lighting I'd like to know that myself if
you guys enjoyed what you saw today leave me a like comments feedback
suggestions any of it and all of its appreciated and like always thanks for
hanging out with me