So we now know that hard lights are concentrated lights and should be used for giving a sense of direction to your frame. But what do you do if you need to remove all those harsh shadows that came up due to hard lights? The key to eliminate these shadows is to use lighting techniques that will fill certain gaps.

Unlike key lights that are hard lights, soft lights are used for soft fills in a frame. These lights have large surfaces and are diffused in nature. The light that you can see in the picture below is a soft light and has a huge surface. Huge surfaces tend to decrease the intensity of light, thus giving it a very soft and dreamy feel.

These lights are generally preferred while clicking portraits and flowers. Since both portrait and flowers have a very soft feel to them and that feel needs to come out through the lighting. If you see the portrait given below, you can see that the shadows are very soft and the soft light is giving a very natural and smooth look to the girl. Her features look appealing and she has a glowing and innocent feel to herself. In fact, once you perfect such techniques and your photos begin to look more professional, you can even order calendars or prints of your work for rather affordable prices on account of some of the latest PhotoBox Voucher Codes. PhotoBox offers professional printing solutions for your photographs and can really give your images a sophisticated feel. Of course, you must first make proper use of lights, including soft lights, in order to achieve professional looking photographs to begin with.

The soft light effect is achieved in various ways. If you increase the distance between the subject and the light, then since the intensity of light decreases, so the light becomes softer. You can also turn a hard light, like the Walimex FL-330W, into a softer light by putting up diffusion filters, nets or butter paper in order to make it into a soft light. Bouncing lights off plain white surfaces is also a great way to give a soft fill to your frame.