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.