What this setup creates
Studio portrait of a female model in traditional Indian attire, lit with a key light with grid and a gelled snooted backlight for dramatic effect, enhanced with cinematic smoke.
Light placement
Key light front-left at 45 degrees, backlight high above and behind.
How to build it
One key light with grid for soft illumination, one back/hair light with snoot and yellow gel for hard, colored light and separation. Cinematic smoke machine used.
- Lighting style
- Dramatic and moody with strong separation from background.
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Hard light
- Shadows
- Deep shadows, Dramatic shadows
- Background
- Colored gel, Seamless backdrop
- Colour
- Warm tones, Cinematic teal-orange
- Visual mood
- Dramatic, Cinematic, Fashion-forward, Luxury
Camera settings
From the tutorial- Aperture
- f/9
- Shutter speed
- 1/160s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 24-105mm
Focal length provided as a range; actual focal length unknown. White balance not specified but likely set for warm tones given the yellow gel.