Lighting setup

Fashion Portrait with Bare Bulb Key and Backlight

2-light Classic portrait lighting with a rim light for separation. lighting setup for catalogue / fashion with a Confident and Stylish mood using Strip softbox with grid, Bare beauty dish.

2 lightsClassic portrait lighting with a rim light for separation.Confident and Stylishcatalogue
Lighting diagram
Fashion Portrait with Bare Bulb Key and Backlight — lighting diagram

Complete setup guide

What this setup creates

A female model is lit with a bare beauty dish as key light from camera right at 45 degrees and a strip softbox with grid as a backlight. A white reflector provides fill from camera left. The shoot takes place against a black textured background.

Light placement

Key light camera right at 45 degrees, strip softbox backlight camera left.

How to build it

The final shots are against a black textured background, though the tutorial showed a white studio wall. The camera settings were extracted from the provided reference image.

Lighting style
Classic portrait lighting with a rim light for separation.
Key light
45 degree
Light quality
Semi-hard, Diffused
Shadows
Clean shadows, Moody
Background
Seamless backdrop
Colour
Neutral
Visual mood
Fashion-forward, Commercial clean, Luxury

Camera settings

From the tutorial
Aperture
f/9
Shutter speed
1/160s
ISO
100
Focal length
24-105mm

Extracted from reference image.

Gear & modifiers

  • Strip softbox with grid
  • Bare beauty dish
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