Studio Lighting Attachments

Softbox:

A Softbox is used to bounce the light off an extra piece of material enabling the light to disburse evenly throughout an image. It's also used a lot with portrait photography as it gives a very smoothing effect.

Beauty Dish:

A beauty disk is simply a reflective material in a bowl shape. This makes the light bounce back and fourth from the subject to the bowl.

Standard Reflector Dish:

A standard Reflector dish direct the light output in a 90 to 120-degree beam. This is usually set up for shining the light into bounce cards, through diffusion, and grids or cutters.

Snoot:

A snoot is usually in a tube shape object that's fitted over the light. It enables the photographer to control the direction and radius of the light beam and can isolate the subject when using flash.

Soft Lighting:

Soft light is when the light source is larger than the subject you're photographing. It can be determinded by the size or how close or further away the light source is.

Hard Light:

Hard light is when you isolate the light to one area. Creating sharp shadows and a lot of contrast within the image.