Light Modifiers
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Setup Instructions
Master’s Brush Accessory Kit
Style: 1095
Description
Thank you for purchasing the “Master’s Brush / Accessory Kit”. Enter a new realm of lighting and
include depth and three-dimension to your subject instantly.
Product Contains
ƒ [1] Circular Inner Baffle
ƒ [1] Multi Layer Net Front
ƒ [1] Barn Door
Instructions
1. Locate your 6 ¼” round inner diffusion baffle and attach to your 16” x 22” Westcott soft box
using the snaps. This inner baffle should be directly centered over your light.
2. Place the edge of the black net front onto the softbox recessing it in about 1”.
3. Attach the barn door panel to the side of the soft box closest to your subject using the Velcro®
tabs. The barn door panel can be adjusted back and forth by placing the Velcro extension
pieces along the outer rim of the soft box.
TIPS FROM THE CREATOR
The Master’s Brush
By Ken And Jason Cook
The Master’s Brush is basically the photographic version of “re-inventing the wheel”. Pre color film, pre
soft boxes and umbrellas and pre digital, the standard light source in all portrait studios was some version of
parabolic light usually with barn doors to dramatically sculpt the face with light patterns.
At this present time, the most common light source is some version of a large soft box or shoot thru
umbrellas. Many of these are in a fixed position. This light source was intended to duplicate window light and to
cover large groups with a flat even light. However, when doing close up portraits its simply impossible to etch
and sculpt the face with precision light patterns that have 1, 2, and 3 stop fall off and well placed spectrals to
provide the illusion of depth and infinity.
The Masters Brush restricts the “hot” strobe light reflecting off the super silver inner surface through a
clear 4” center aperture. The hot light is continuously diminished by black screening. The resulting light is self
feathering, and while it may take years to master repeatable finessed feathered classic patterns on close up head
shots, the Master’s Brush does it instantly.
The Master’s Brush combined with the seven classic light patterns that sculpt, form, and define the human
face, truly reflects the camera craftsmanship of a master photographer.
©F.J. Westcott Company
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