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Fashion Portrait with Overhead Key and Rim Light on Red

2-light Key light provides controlled soft light, while the bare beauty dish creates a harsher, defined rim highlight, resulting in moderate to high contrast. lighting setup for catalogue / fashion with a Dramatic and fashion-forward with a high-contrast aesthetic. mood using Octabox with grid, Bare beauty dish, Silver reflector.

2 lightsKey light provides controlled soft light, while the bare beauty dish creates a harsher, defined rim highlight, resulting in moderate to high contrast.Dramatic and fashion-forward with a high-contrast aesthetic.catalogue
Lighting diagram
Fashion Portrait with Overhead Key and Rim Light on Red — lighting diagram

Complete setup guide

What this setup creates

A fashion-forward portrait setup featuring a model in a dark suit against a vibrant red seamless background. Lighting includes an overhead octabox with grid as key, a bare beauty dish as rim light, and a silver reflector for fill, creating a dramatic and high-contrast look.

Light placement

Key light is an octabox with a grid positioned overhead and slightly in front of the model. A bare beauty dish serves as a rim/back light, placed to the right and slightly behind the model. A silver reflector is positioned in front and to the left of the model at waist height for fill.

How to build it

The model is posing on white blocks of varying heights against a vibrant red paper seamless background.

Lighting style
Key light provides controlled soft light, while the bare beauty dish creates a harsher, defined rim highlight, resulting in moderate to high contrast.
Key light
Top light
Light quality
Soft light, Hard light, High contrast
Shadows
Deep shadows, Dramatic shadows
Background
Seamless backdrop
Colour
Warm tones, Neutral
Visual mood
Fashion-forward, Dramatic, Premium, Commercial clean

Camera settings

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

Lens is 24-105mm f/4. Camera is Canon R6 m2.

Gear & modifiers

  • Octabox with grid
  • Bare beauty dish
  • Silver reflector
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