Collection: Umbrella Lights

How to Use Umbrella Lights

Umbrella Lights An umbrella light is an indispensable part of studio photography, perfect for creating soft yet lovely lighting environments without needing costly and complex modifiers. They're often the go-to kit for beginner photographers.

How to Use an Umbrella

Umbrellas are quick and simple to set up, making them great portable options that can easily attach to flash brackets or studio strobes for effortless photography.

Umbrellas Can Create Soft, Beautiful Light Environments

When utilized properly, umbrellas can produce soft lighting that's much more flattering to subjects and can even help minimize wrinkles and blemishes - another reason they are such popular choices among beauty photographers.

The types of umbrella lights available vary significantly. Shoot-through umbrellas tend to be the most widely utilized as they produce diffused and soft light that's ideal for portrait photography; reflective silver umbrellas offer more contrasty illumination for more dramatic shots.

How to Use Shoot-Through and Reflective Umbrellas

In general, when using shoot-through and reflective umbrellas, aim the bulb of your light source towards the umbrella rather than out. This ensures the light focuses on your subject rather than reflecting back out as with reflective and parabolic umbrellas.

If you want to add an extra personal touch to your umbrella, a diffuser may add another level of control over how soft or hard the light is. They're not essential but can transform an umbrella into something closer to a softbox or beauty dish in terms of light quality customization.