The light from my soft box and white umbrella have too much contrast. Whats wrong?
It sounds like you have positioned the soft box and umbrella too far from the subject. In order to achieve optimum softness, the umbrella and soft box should be as large as possible and the soft box/umbrella distance to the subject should be as follows. An umbrella should be no farther from the subject than the diameter of the umbrella. A soft box should be no farther from the subject than the width of the soft box. Diffusers help soften light, but are not nearly as important as the size of the light source and the light source to subject distance.
