Three Ways to Use a Magnum Reflector Hard Light Modifier

In this video I’m going to introduce you to the Magnum reflector light modifier and how I use it to create hard light portrait and fashion images. A Magnum reflector creates bright and crisp illumination on your subject and I find that it’s a great choice if you want to highlight features or create the look of sunlight in the studio. The brand of Magnum reflector I use is from Profoto and I really like this one because you can zoom the reflector to control the overall focus of light. You might ask, what’s the difference between using a silver beauty dish for example versus this type of reflector? For one, a beauty dish bounces the light back into the reflector before discharging it, thus creating a bit of diffusion in the spread. The Magnum reflector has no such “double bounce” - it just throws as much light out from the bare bulb as possible, and because it’s such a concentrated beam of light, it creates really bright results. Comparative to other modifiers, the Magnum