Now we're going to talk about diffusers. We just spoke about hardest soft light in the previous lessons. Now diffusers is what you use to help transition between hard to Soft Light. I don't think it works that well in reverse but hard light can definitely turn into a soft light source. Now what are diffusers, diffusers come in different, you know shapes. But the purpose of a diffuser is to spread the light source.
So this can be anything from a sheet of paper to a plastic bag as long as the light can shine through. Anything can work really. So you would use this to basically spread the light all across the sea. Now the fuses don't just come in one size. They come in many different sizes depending on what you're trying to do. But you also always got to remember that the bigger the light source, the softer the light is going To be so if you have medium sized diffusers, you know something that sits around this big, then it's probably going to give you a soft enough, you know, light, but it's not going to be too much to where you're going to need to bring up the brightness of the of the core light just to be able to illuminate the scene.
So of course, if you want to have a bigger diffuser, you should use, you know, a more powerful or a bigger light source in order to power this big diffuser, or to power through this diffuser. And if you're shooting in a place like a studio, or a really controlspace, then you're going to have to have at least two or three diffusers at your disposal because you're going to be using them all the time shooting using a hard light source. You know, this will be something that basically works in a way that a flashlight would would be very rare, you know, so you always have to have diffusers working if you're in a control space. So if you're going to be lighting see Make sure you have diffusers at your disposal. And if you don't know anything about them, then find out about them because it's essential for your scenes.
And it's not a very heavy type of technology. It's just something to spread your life. So it can just be anything from from a white sheet that sits in front of your light source that your that the light is basically gonna blast through in order to light everything else. So that's just about it on diffusers. Let's move on to the next lesson.