Small Diffuser Dome vs Softbox for photography video lighting 

MakusPix isn't a RU-vid Channel. It's a FILM SCHOOL !!! Thanks Markus this is just what I needed to learn !

Good Lord! At time stamp 4:21 exactly, Cara has never looked more beautiful. That look on her face and the eye expression, is she a majestic fantasy being or what? Wow! Oh, and red is sooooo her color!

This is what I mean in some of my other comments - none of these other big photography channels teach the things that you do. I have been a hobby photographer for 15+ years and always believed those domes were a type of soft light diffuser. Thanks for today's lesson Markus! I feel like I owe you a tuition fee, haha.

I think you are really the best RU-vidr on teaching light equipments to use

I always love to see you both, hope your doing wonderfully 😅!

Really appreciate you giving your honest reviews on these lights - too many RU-vidrs just putting out paid reviews.

My favorite take-away tip I got in this episode Mr. Markus was this; "Walls are Flat, Faces are Not!". Great stuff SIr.

(Winner: Adrian Cordero, FL) Thank you Markus I will pair this with Colbor, now I’ll have key & rim! 🎉 Congrats Joseph on the win as well!

Nice explanation. It took me a long time of working with different things and hundreds of rolls of slide film to learn the things you are teaching. Nicely done. You are a good teacher.

Such a concise and easily digestible explanation. Thank you for showing this comparison!

"On this weeks episode of Markus reads Cory's Mind" Perfect timing for this video!

Love you Man! People keep thinking they can change physics. There’s even a guy selling soft boxes with a black interior. Softness is size and distance of light from subject period!

Great to hear that some fellow Floridians won some gear :)

Appreciate all your tests and comparisons 💚

I discover your channel some months ago , your videos are so straight to the point and full of information , I’m not loosing a video since then , greetings from Spain !

Thank you Markus and Cara, I received my winning portable reflector kit 😁❤🥰!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Markus I can’t wait to see how you use small softboxes.

super helpfull straight to the point.. great video thank you.

Solid demonstration. Another effect many people do not consider is how close the light is placed changes how soft the light wraps around a face or any other 3D subject. The father the light, the smaller and more pinpoint the source becomes, even with a softbox.

Great explanation! Hope you get your voice back soon. Oooh! It looks like you two were just in a huge argument. It happens to the best of us.

Simple and straight to the point - just use the softbox when your can :)

Thank You Markus & Cara .My Amaran D60 Light came today . Thank you so much.

Love you Markus…. Keep up the good work Hi everyone I’m ThePandaPhotographer

i need a softbox and lights out here in NC lol. another awesome video

Fantastic! no more confusion about it.

Markus, I love your videos, you give me a wonderful time while watching, I wish you every luck in this world! Love from Germany!

Fantastic video

Excellent sharing Knowledge with stunning beauty. Thank you Very Much

Great info. Thanks for this quickie enlightening moment.

Love IT! Every time when, I watch one of your videos I learn more and more thank you so much.

Is it just me, or did Markus just accidentally created a gorgeous portrait light at 3:06? I mean, look at the eye light and shadows, they look amazing!

I'm not gonna lie it took coming back a few times to start to like your channel. But like a fungus, you grow on people and I find your channel, informative, honest and I like it. No all light hearted. Ribbon aside., I agree with what you said in this video in the contacts that you were using that particular diffuser.. I like small round diffusers. The one I have is a bones mount cheap Chinese thing which is basically a plastic ball with bones mount much more circular than the one you have which is a half ball. When used the way, you set it up everything you said wrong with it is true . But that's not typically how are use those things. In some instances they can be used as a replacement for a China ball, which is a popular lighting choice for video but the best way to use them is if you're using them with really bright lights, and you can put them into the corner at the ceiling where you have white walls and white ceiling, or at least very light, and you allow that light to bounce off those surfaces towards your subject. This creates an impressively soft light, but you don't get a lot of power. I will typically use that for fill light then a larger light source for the key light it's about control and contrast by balancing light everywhere, and in a small room, the light you had could very easily give similar light to what you would get from a soft box with a light source that creates a hotspot.. So they can be useful and they are small and light . But you're right if you put it on the light stand and use it as a key like the same way you would use a softbox it doesn't give great results.

I use the Gary Fong dome on my speedlight indoors at events where I cannot lug a 48" softbox through the crowds. Works great! I wish you would test a ring flash that mounts on a camera and uses an AD200 in a holster. I have only seen one tested and it almost killed the harsh shadows! May work as good as an external speedlight?

Thanks for the guide

Excellent: logical & persuasive.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, great info.

Go Markus go!!!

Excellent analysis and description...thank you!

The hot duo strikes again

Great Video!!

great explanation

thanks for the tips Markus

Hi Markus found this , no ideia if is good , do hope so.2 - CONTINUOUS OR ONE-SHOT AUTOFOCUS? In the AF menu, you have two different options: Continuous and One-Shot. In One-Shot, the Autofocus is inactive until you force it to act, while Continuous AF is always active unless you lock it (more on that later). 3 - ACTIVATING ONE-SHOT Deploying One-Shot Autofocus is as simple as pressing the little button on the front of the camera, right below the lens. The C100 will snap to focus whatever object is inside the white box in the center of the image. It’s really that simple. 4 - USING CONTINOUS AUTOFOCUS Continuous Autofocus can be a blessing and a curse. The C100 Mark II will focus on whatever is within the box in the center of the image - nothing more, nothing less. If your subject is there, it will work miracles. If they drift to one side though, you may find yourself looking at a perfectly sharp wall. 5- USING CONTINUOUS AUTOFOCUS WELL focus on them, and when they aren’t, you simply hold the focus lock button to keep the camera from hunting for focus. Deployed tactically, this can be a great way to reign in the worst impulses of the C100’s autofocus system. But don’t take my word for it - try this all out for yourself, and see which mode works for you!

Great insight, thank you🤙🏽

Great video 🫶

Great video as always.

Great content. I do use the diffuser domes...but only for my outdoor photography work...when I am out and about sans an equipment pack. Indoors...not much point.

Rápido y preciso. Excelente!!

Danke! Wirklich sehr schön erklärt

Thanks for this video, it is exactly what I was looking for. I was confused as a noob which is better for shooting scaled models. I will go for a softbox with honeycomb for my Zhiyun X100

Great explanation!

Thx fór video!

I just saw a picture on Yahoo news from the 70’s. It had a shadow profiling the person, just like my pictures that I took using a Vivitar Thyristor 285 with a Fresnel diffuser mounted to the left of my camera. The picture brought back memories of all the shortcuts and mistakes I did in photography. Off topic, Do you know how to connect an NX500 and/or NX mini to a gimbal with a USB cable without having the camera go into charge mode and shut down. I would like to communicate with the camera on my FeiyuTech and Manfrotto gimbal.

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Super thanks

In a way the flat reflector vs rounded one is similar to how a silver vs white bounce umbrella falls onto a wall. The former is more more powerful but less even. It's all about how big it is in relation to what is being photographed.

Thank you

Nice video. I think your parallel light rays explanation is slightly flawed, though. The light still diffuses in all directions even with a large flat panel, it’s just diffusing from a larger surface. Some of the light will be parallel, but most won’t be. Of course a parabolic dome without the diffusion would be parallel as that’s the point, but this actually has the effect of hard light.

Thanks

If you were only able to have one light shooting outside for something like HS senior photos or before prom photos would you have an AD200 with a soft box? I have only done natural light with a 5 in 1 reflector so far. I want to learn how to use flash outdoors though. Just not certain where to start. I'm guessing that on camera flash with some type of diffuser or bounce attachment wouldn't be the best for my application? Thanks for your videos. Love your explanations. Have a great week!

Markus this is still related to the Canon C100ii eye tracking possibility got responses most not positive meaning no solution yet found. people do react so maybe later kind regards

Markus, can you try out a fuji camera? I want to know your opinion please!

Marcus could you please make a video on how to make a lab mic sound as incredible as yours? No matter where I put it, unless I hold mine on my hand near my mouth, it sounds incredibly muffled or very echoy and I’ve tried with the rode wireless go and the forevala w60 with their built in mics and a lav attached to them

thank u

AWESOME I WON !

Can you talk about what size of lightbox to use when shooting portraits outside? Thanks!

Question, why is the softbox softer than the 4x4 diffuser? Is it because of the diffusion material, or more due to the box bouncing light internally around and spreading it more evenly onto the subject? I know there could be other factors, like the distance of the light from the diffuser, and the spread of light on the diffuser, but just wondering if there is s simple reason why.

this comment has pictures but wasn't sure if it would not be to much , yet may you want to see them ,let me know . all the best to you Markus and Cara.

you crank these vids like crazy. blink if you being held hostage!

No Build in Flash+Wireless no Life

Sheesh you really hate this light don’t you lol

I don't think that you will get better than a softbox or a scrim for portrait . regardless of how expensive or who makes LEDs. Markus. so happy that you still use the AD 200 and the 600. Hope they never be overtaken by LEDs

it's clear now

thanks