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Self adhesive light DiffuserFilm

A light that is pointed directly at a subject and has diffusion material placed in front of the lamp source. The quality of light emitted is referred to as "soft light".

Gel is available in 2' x 3' sheets and rolls of 4'-5' wide and up to 35' long. There are 'party' colors, light balance compensation colorts, diffusion materials, neutral density and reflective materials to name a few options.

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Light diffusionFilm

Gel is a material that is heat resistant and translucent and intended to be placed in front of a light source to either alter it's color, quantity or quality of light.

When a light is aimed directly at an object or subject, as opposed to being bounced, it is said to be 'direct' light. Any lighting source can have diffusion added to it in order to change the quality of light emitting from the lamp and untimely falling upon the subject. In general terms, adding diffusion to a lamp will "soften" the quality of light, but the expectations of 'soft light' may not be what is expected if diffusion was only added to the lamp head itself (such as with a gel frame) or attached to the barn doors of the light.

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Diffusion is any material that is placed in front of a light source to increase the size of that light source, effectively creating a "softer" quality of light.

The by-product of placeing diffusion in front of a lamp is that it will decrease the intensitiy of the light being emmited.