| A Creative Use for Bookends |
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| Written by Chris Grey | |||||||
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I've noted many instances throughout my columns where a piece of material was placed between the light and the background (a "gobo" or, "go-between") or where some of the light was diminished by attaching a piece of material to an accessory arm and cutting some light to a selected area (a "flag"). Essentially, both gobos and flags accomplish the same thing by reducing the effect of a given light but, by virtue of jargon, gobos are placed on the floor while flags are attached to light stands, above the floor. Either can be opaque or translucent. While controlling light is the primary reason for using a gobo or a flag, they can also be used as creative tools in your ever-deepening back of tricks. This is especially true for gobos. One of the coolest ways I've found to use gobos is to block light from a bare-tubed strobe. This first image utilized two strip light softboxes to light the sides of the model from the rear. Both were goboed off with black bookends to keep light off the camera as well as the background. Two additional bookend gobos were set in front of the camera, in front of a bare tube strobe that was set on a boom straight above the camera, in the Butterfly position. Please Log In or Sign Up for a FREE Silver Account to access the rest of this article or others on ProPhotoResource.com | |||||||
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