Using Huge Reflectors When Softboxes Are Not Available

When shooting big shiny curved surfaces, you often want to use big light sources to get even illumination and to avoid hotspots.

Sometime, though, your softboxes are not big enough or you simply dont have enough of them.

Michael Zelbel of Smoking Strobes shares a great tip on how you can use huge  reflectors to create the appearance of light coming from a big light source.

Michael is shooting a latex dressed model. To have a light source big enough he bounces one strobe of a white wall and another one onto a big DIYed reflector.

The result, aside from a weird looking geisha is smooth light and no hotspots.

No giant softboxes at hand? Use reflectors! | smokingstrobes