Which effect is better, soft ball or soft mask?

Spherical soft light mask and soft light ball are commonly used soft light accessories, which can make the highlights from the center to the edge of light irradiation rich, unnatural and uniform, and the soft light effect is excellent.

Flexible boxes are the most common in live broadcast rooms. Because all light sources are hard light, just like the sun shines down. The shadow is stiff. Most people don't like it, and it is easy to have a big contrast between light and dark. Shining on the face is either overexposed or underexposed. Therefore, the soft light brought by the soft light box is needed to make a layer of clouds under the sun shine on the face more naturally.