Control your light with an optical spot

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 20:20 by Elja Trum | 3,785 views | 1 comment

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Photographer Lindsay Adler has created an optical spot in collaboration with Westcott. It allows you to place studio light very precisely on your subject. In this video, Lindsay shows you how to use the spot.

The spot itself costs around 699 euros, and you can also buy extras such as a gobo pack, which allows you to place patterns and shapes in the light. So it is not exactly cheap, but it does give you some special possibilities in your studio.

An alternative is, of course, to work with flags and natural gobos.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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spaander wrote on Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 10:21 | reply
Met een (oude) diaprojector en wat zwarte kartonnetjes met het formaat van een dia kom je ook een heel eind....
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