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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.

Questions? Please call 800.886.1689 or email info@fjwestcott.com.

©F.J. Westcott Company

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