Logbook of Captain Emiliano Bruni

I was really disappointed in my attempt to make a softbox that is a light with a diffuser in front so as to reduce the point source of light and thus make more "soft" shadows.

Finally, after several attempts I came to use the loudspeaker shown in my previous post with a halogen lamp on a tripod to those found in various shopping malls but that did not satisfy me because I had to adjust the structure "X" that held the speaker fixing it with the bolts in the rear of the lamp, and even so, the structure was far from stable, however, tend to bend downwards.

Today, armed with a new plate in polionda, I tried to find alternatives and eventually abbandonado the structure of the skeleton to X, I managed to make the tree under

that in addition to them very stable and resistant is also easily removable by unscrewing the central pivot

The two white bands that are visible in the lower left, in the first picture, they serve only to reduce to zero the downward deflection of the slab, but to remain at the center of the lamp enough without them.

All photos of that and previous softbox on Google Picasa

Continue the implementation of SoftBox. I finally added the rings and connected to multionda all

The end result is very good aesthetically and structurally speaking, but unfortunately the use is not satisfactory because multionda is still too opaque

I tried to use a reflective plate but not the same satisfactory.

However I think the 25W lamp, which should shed light on how a 130W is not enough and I think then turn back to the classics halogen spotlights, more powerful, but because they produce much more heat will be to understand how the SoftBox Hangers around.

Time will tell.

Waiting for the "green screen" what better time to build a SoftBox?

The SoftBox is essentially a tool photographic or video production to achieve the soft lights. E 'is usually formed by a point light source enclosed within a box covered with reflective material while at an opening of considerable size, there is an opaque material but that lets the light source inside.

I said, what is the best time, if not this, and especially after seeing this very nice hacking.

So armed with holy courage, let's spend a little money in the usual Obi.

Here below the material taken today.

Start with the small panel frontal white and let's polionda four holes at the top. The idea was to use those rings used to make holes in the fences. So 'to have them at home as well as the forceps. The clamp I found at once, the rings, no trace.

They are then passed to thread the threaded metal rods inside the round box and, once fixed inside

I tied the sides so that they match the holes in the multionda.

Let stand for 24 hours.