What this setup creates
A professional studio lighting setup for an elegant portrait, featuring a female model and a dark, textured gradient background. The setup uses a key light with a beauty dish and grid, a fill light with a white bare umbrella, and a hair light for separation.
Light placement
Key light: front-left at 45 degrees, above model. Fill light: front-left, slightly lower. Hair light: behind and to the left (camera right), pointed at head.
How to build it
Three-point lighting setup on a dark, textured gradient background. The key light provides soft but directional light, the fill light softens shadows, and the hair light adds separation. Catchlights are visible in the eyes.
- Lighting style
- Key and fill, with hair light. Soft light quality with good depth and contrast.
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Low contrast
- Shadows
- Clean shadows
- Background
- Gradient background
- Colour
- Neutral, Warm tones
- Visual mood
- Luxury, Premium, Commercial clean, Dramatic
Camera settings
Suggested starting point- Aperture
- f/8
- Shutter speed
- 1/160s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 85mm
- White balance
- 5500K
Inferred standard studio portrait settings for soft, well-exposed images.