Making great light is essential to making great portraits. And I mean that: you’ve got to make great light. You can find a good source of available light, but I’ve rarely seen any available light that couldn’t be made better, either with reflectors and flags or by adding light somewhere with a flash. When you need to use a flash, you also need to modify the light coming out of it, and my favorite new modifier for small flash is the Magmod system. Let me share a few ideas about modifying light, and why I like Magmod.

Why Modify?Modifying light allows us to make it softer, more isolated, more spread out, and even change the color. I modify the light every time I use a speedlight. I may bounce the light off a wall or ceiling, but I almost always add a modifier to the light itself. A modifier is anything that changes the light coming from your flash. I use softboxes, beauty dishes, Tupperware containers, and gels on a regular basis….

Source: Modifying Speedlights & Magmod Mini Review | Photofocus