Dramatic Fashion Portrait with Beauty Dish Key and Rim Light

Overview

A female model is lit with a beauty dish as the key light and a snoot as a rim/hair light, a gridded reflector towards towards a seamless white background. A negative fill panel is used to enhance shadows and contrast, creating a dramatic, fashion-forward look.

Gear & modifiers

• Beauty dish with grid
• Standard reflector with grid
• Black negative fill panel
• Snoot

AI notes

The beauty dish with a grid is positioned as the key light to the camera-right and slightly in front of the subject. A light with a snoot is used as a hair/rim light from the camera-left and behind the subject. A black negative fill panel is placed camera-left to deepen shadows and increase contrast on the subject and background. A light with standard reflector and grid pointed at the backdrop to give hard spot on the background.

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