Today I'm gonna talk to you about the octobox. It's a really fun tool to use. It creates a semi-round catch light in your subject's eyes and lights a bit like a spot would do. I see it as a compromise between a beauty dish and a rectangular softbox. You can see an exemple of what can be achieved here:

This was taken with a Canon 5D body, 135L lens at f11 , a White Lightning X1600 with a120cm Aurora Softbox.

A octobox looks like this:

Thanks for reading! J. Enno