Soft Light
Soft-Lights are designed to
produce soft light with less-defined shadows. Light from the long tubular
globes is directed into a white concave reflector. Because it is indirect,
bounced off a diffuse white surface, and exits trough a relatively large
aperture, resulting light is soft and has a wide, even uncontrolled spread.
Soft-Lights are commonly used for fill and general room ambiance.
Because soft-light use indirect light, they produce
less light per watt than Fresnel’s and even less light than Open-Face lights .
Most soft-Lights have multiple globes, each switched individually, making it
easy to increase or reduce the light's intensity. In generally they don't use
scrims, but can be improvised by insetting a baby scrim between the base and
the white reflector surface.
