Lighting setup

Beauty Dish Portrait with Clean Background

1-light Overhead key light creating soft but deep shadows. lighting setup for catalogue / e-commerce with a Professional, clean, high-key. mood using Beauty dish with grid and diffuser, Handheld reflector.

1 lightOverhead key light creating soft but deep shadows.Professional, clean, high-key.catalogue
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Beauty Dish Portrait with Clean Background — lighting diagram

Complete setup guide

What this setup creates

A video tutorial demonstrating a portrait lighting setup using a single beauty dish with a grid and diffuser, positioned overhead at a 45-degree angle. The subject is a female model in a black bodysuit against a white seamless background.

Light placement

Key light overhead at 45 degrees to the front of the subject.

How to build it

Single beauty dish as key light, positioned overhead with a grid and diffuser. Handheld reflector used for fill.

Lighting style
Overhead key light creating soft but deep shadows.
Key light
45 degree
Light quality
Soft light, Diffused
Shadows
Deep shadows, Clean shadows
Background
Seamless backdrop, Pure white
Colour
Neutral
Visual mood
Commercial clean

Camera settings

From the tutorial
Aperture
f/9
Shutter speed
1/160s
ISO
200
Focal length
24-105mm

Camera Canon R6 m2 used for the shoot.

Gear & modifiers

  • Beauty dish with grid and diffuser
  • Handheld reflector
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