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Separation studio 4 free3/27/2023 ![]() Many of you are likely thinking this is fantastic and some of you may even focus your softboxes even further with grids on them too. Softboxes are great at softening the light, but they also focus all of that light in one area. One other factor that I’ve personally grown to love about scrims though, is their flaw/feature of not directing all of the light into one spot. You can’t very well throw a softbox on the sun or turn it down and this is where scrims are most useful. ![]() Why would you use a scrim?Īs I mentioned above, we studio photographers already own scores of softboxes in a multitude of sizes and shapes, why on earth would we even use a scrim? You are correct of course, a softbox is super convenient, but a scrims usage ultimately came about in the film world as a way to not only reduce the power of the sun, but to soften the harshness of sunlight. In the top images, we see the light effect without a scrim and in the bottom image we see the light quality change dramatically with the scrim placed between the light and the subject. ![]() ![]() Click to enlarge: In this image, we can see a direct like-for-like comparison of what a scrim does to the light. ![]()
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