Is it better for Taobao sellers to take photos with soft boxes or photo studios?

Mainly depends on what the seller sells.

The function of the flexible box is to soften the stiff light and make the light quality softer. Its principle is that it can spread through one or two layers on the basis of ordinary light source, so that the original light irradiation range becomes wider and becomes diffused light. The umbrella-shaped fast soft box uses the soft box to generate uniform and soft light with good color saturation. Soft boxes are mostly composed of reflective materials, octagonal soft boxes and ordinary soft box cloth, which makes the light-emitting surface of soft boxes bigger, more uniform, softer and brighter. There are many kinds of soft boxes, including rectangular soft boxes, square soft boxes, octagonal soft boxes, cylindrical soft boxes, umbrella soft boxes and honeycomb soft boxes. No matter what their shapes are, the effect is similar, and they are all bright and soft colors.

This kind of light is especially suitable for indoor portrait art photos and still life, which is conducive to expressing the texture and color of human skin, making the skin look very delicate, with a large illumination area, without forming a hard shadow edge behind edamame, and looks soft and comfortable. It is an indispensable accessory for the studio.

Names and functions of various lights in the studio

The main light illuminates the brightest part of the subject, which is the main light source in photography.

The auxiliary light source is used to supplement the light in the dark part of the auxiliary light theme and adjust the light ratio when controlling the light ratio.

Background light is a kind of effect light, which brightens the background area. Otherwise, the theme and background lack a sense of light field and layering, which will produce background shadows.

Lighting is one of effect light, which separates hair from dark background, but it is not applicable when the background is light.

Spotlight effect light produces a strong lighting effect. If you insert special inserts, you can get different shapes of light and shadow effects, which are often used to make background light and shadow.

Other effect lights, such as "background light" that highlights the outline of the theme, depend on the photographer's needs.