❗️The MOST IMPORTANT light modifier in product photography: SELECTING DIFFUSER

What is the most important tool for a product photographer? What is the critical part that makes a great image, besides an obvious camera, lens, and lighting?
Watch the video and I’ll tell you what it is, and where to get it without spending too much.

0:56 Most Important Thing For Product Photographer
2:25 Westcott Diffuser
4:40 Arm Holder
5:18 Flag Frame
9:28 Issue With The Diffuser
11:34 Prices

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[gerry-hewittbrown]

Hi Alex,  The color trim on the flags is a film industry code for diffusion - yellow, red, blue, black, green.  As you store your scrims /rags in a box like dirty laundry this way you do not get creases in the fabric but more natural wrinkles which are organic and typically dont cause a line like a new folded softbox white cover.  So in you big box of rags you want a single black  you will grab a red edged rag, for a white net you grab the aqua and for a 1 stop silk you grab yellow and so on .  Hope this helps you to understand the reason for color coding.

[AlexandraOrtizdeFargher]

Thank you. I was thinking of making a difuser holder from pvc pipe. Didn't think about the need to rotate. Saved me some time here. Thank you.

[josephyyyy]

save time and watch at 1.25x speed. :)

[mitchdB]

thank you so much ! in depth to talk about the process of learning stage in photogtaphy ! thank you!

[jackreckitt]

I have been working with packaging foam as a diffuser and it works well along with diffusing, it spreads the light out into the material making it sort of glow like the front of a soft box.

[jvusa]

Excellent Information, Thank you so much Alex ...

[Memorablemomentsart]

Thank you Alex. Very good information! I do appreciate it. 

[coastalmotionvideo]

Wax paper can help also for a low budget lighting hack, thanks for the video

[beulebeulentum]

Great video!
What kind of material would you recommend for photos as shown in your video "How to make a great still life shot with only 1 light: tips from Photigy instrcutors"?
I will work with a Nikon SB 900 strobe or with a 100Ws studio light. Maybe for example the recommended "Savage Translum Diffusion" is to "thick" for such weak lights so that you lose to many f-stopps?
(Please apologize for my English, I'm not a native speaker).
Thank you for your answer in advance!

[richardbloenk]

also, the yellow around the border of that 4x4 is to indicate that it is poly-silk. spray painting that will just make the silk uneven. the yellow doesnt even affect the light- your light should be focused to fill the frame, not be hitting the sides of it!

[MrRusakovs]

Hi Alex, do you  know another place where I can buy this frame?
b&h delivery so expensive...

[mike-pmxn]

Wow. Spraying paint next to your camera...

[dirt]

Can you use Fresnel light with bulb and f;lash at the same time.

[MrAnaspall]

thanks a lot for information regarding product photography
i doing product photography am facing issue in surgical photography can you send me video regarding surgical photography on white background thanks

[FKfilmphotography]

Maybe just use white gaff tape on the yellow frame

[reloadersjournal]

Hi Alex, I'm very new to studio photography. I'm looking into getting my first set of lights, diffusers etc for studio photography. My main subjects will be product shots but some of these products will be retail packaging that has acetate windows. I have not idea how much light I need, size of diffusers etc so I can light the packaging and the product inside the packaging while avoiding reflections off of the acetate windows on these various boxes. If you have another video that covers that, I would appreciate it if you could point me to it. Otherwise, if you could answer here in the comment area that would be a great help. Thank you for the videos.

[Photoindustrial]

In the film industry the side color indicates the kind of material and the strength of it. Green 1/2 stop single scrim, red 1 stop double etc.

[DanielleDeutschTV]

White tape might be cleaner than the spray paint.. :)

[davejenx]

i think its westcott that colour the edge to indicate different levels of diffusion, i think this is a good idea to be able to tell at a glance what nd it is and for repeating but it only needs to be one edge . i would actually colour code all my diffusers to match, sorry