![]() I don’t want to put this whole reflector like this. Large reflectors are like large soft boxes. That’s kind of big.Īll right, so now let’s go to the large reflector. So there’s my DIY reflector, four foot by four foot. So I always take a piece of tape and with that piece of tape I’m going to seal up the edges. It’s going to get all over you like it did me. It’s going to flake off and cause problems. And so it balances the light in a very soft way. It’s a beautiful reflective surface because it’s beveled with each one of these little pieces of Styrofoam. Nope, there’s a bunch of stuff on this thing. ![]() Or it has a beautiful bead foam on this side. If I want to get a little silver bounce on my face, whoa, look at that. Okay, the first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to cut this thing in half right along that line. A four by eight sheet like this by one inch is going to cost you about thirteen dollars. It’s just a great way to make a reflector. So this is a one inch by four foot by eight foot piece of Styrofoam insulation that they use in walls, ceilings, all over in houses. It’s a beautiful reflector and it’s just simply this, it’s is an insulation. ![]() Bouncing light out of this reflector and using this reflector to come in to be able to open up the shadows on a face. It’s always been a go-to beautiful soft light. I’ve used this type of reflector on set as a director and as a DP/director. But that’s an inexpensive pop-up for like eight bucks. So it’s just not as efficient of a reflector. So it’s going to bounce the light back, but not as efficiently. This is not as efficient as the foam core because it’s a very soft material. But this will give us a nice bounce on her face. You can find them that are all white, black on one side and white on the other. So our second solution is the window shade and this even has a silvery side on it. These are a great solution and this one was $7.50 from the automotive store. Put it on a stand.Bounce a little white light in there or a little bit of negative fill. But these become just a really simple solution. I had a white one coming, white/black, but it didn’t arrive in time. This one is silver and on the back side is black. Number two, a pop-up reflector that goes into your window of your car. Use it as a key light in the different five portrait lighting positions. You can use this fill card exactly the way you do any kind of a soft box. And I can give myself a light on her face, a paramount light. You can even take this card, if I put it on here I can work it from overhead. Get it up high and that way you have a beautiful light up high. So that’s a simple card you buy for a buck fifty and it gives you a great fill light. If I drop this thing and open it up it’ll start to open up all of her body and much lower on her dress. It just gives us a beautiful light on her face. It gives a great bounce back on her face. So I’m going to get it up high and I’m going to first put in that inexpensive Dollar Store foam board. We want to get this light up where a light would be. Arms are just really simple to throw that in on her face there. They’ll get in here and they’ll go, oh hey, hold this down here, because it’s just easier. Number one, a piece of foam board from the Dollar Store.įirst off, how do you use a reflector outside? Most people go like this. Or a short reflector when I’m outside reflecting a lot of people’s faces. I take two of them and I tape them together just like this. That’s my number one favorite DIY solution for a reflector. You can do whatever you want with these things because they’re a dollar. Look from the side and go from the side, you reflect from the side. You can go like this, look at it, look through it. You can do whatever you want with these things. You can tear them in half it you want to. These are fabulous because you can do whatever you want with them. Then how to use them and the quality of light that they give. Today on The Slanted Lens I’m going to show you my three favorite DIY solutions for reflectors.
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