The Misconceptions About Soft Light

Spencer: I want to start from a kind of basic level. The big thing that everyone seems to do incorrectly for years is the idea that to get Soft Light, all you need to do is put something in front of your light That will scatter those light particles, diffuse it and create Soft Light on your subject. What makes light Soft is the size of the source relative to the distance of the subject. So as a light source, it gets bigger, it looks softer. If you have a shiny ball, you're going to see like a point of light reflecting back, if it is specular. And if you have diffused the light, you will see a more even distribution