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Poly board is white one side,

black the other.

And so whether you want reflection or negative,

as in you might want black to sort of

suck any reflection out of the picture as well.

I once did a shoot where I had no budget for lights,

so I just use black.

So rather than lighting people,

I took light away from where I didn't want it.

And it's sort of reverse lighting

and it actually works quite well.

You should try it.

Obviously not everyone wants to have a 24 K behind a 12 foot

silk in a studio.

So obviously we can also just use a poly board.

The reason you can't always use a poly board,

is that if I want to stand back and do a full length,

the reflect of it needs to give the same amount of

brightness changes.

So I can have a constant amount of fill,

it doesn't matter how close or far I am from the subject,

with this I've got constant field.

Whereas with a reflector,

it has to be the right distance from your subject to fill

the amount you want it to fill and is a common thing.

When you see on photo shoots that you give an assistant a

reflector and it's like,

everyone thinks their job is to be as close to the subject

is as humanly possible. But of course, the closer you get,

the more light the reflectors reflecting.

And then what you get is pictures where you see evidence of

the reflector.

And in my opinion, if you see a reflector,

you've absolutely messed up.

So,

really think of a reflector as another light source.

So you look at dark faces here, right.

And then,

look how bright that is.

I mean, that's now, in my opinion,

oppressively bright for the picture

that we're trying to take.

The other thing is it's as much a low light as a highlight.

So what we'll often do with reflectors is that you'll break

them in half or you put them high.

So at least now there's still a shadow under her chin.

So be very cautious with reflectors cause they can be

massively overused.