Photoflex
A softbox is an enclosure designed to fit around an artificial light source, such as a flash tube or halogen lamp. Its reflective interior intensifies the light output and projects it through its only means of escape—the front diffusion screen. This creates a quality of light long appreciated by photographers and videographers, which resembles the softer light one might find streaming through a window. It also creates square or rectangular highlights in the reflective surfaces of your subjects. The "soft" name stuck because of the quality of
In this B&H Photo Event Space video, photographer Steve Hansen explains and demonstrates the uses of LED lighting in the studio. LED lights enjoy the advantages of being continuous and daylight-balanced, which makes them ideal for still and video applications. Hansen discusses the pluses and limitations of LED lighting, how to expose for LED lights, and how to maximize the attributes of LED lighting systems when shooting commercial still-life photographs in the studio.