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.