What this setup creates
A studio photography tutorial demonstrating a four-light setup for a fashion portrait. The setup includes a beauty dish as key, a snoot for hair light, and two red-gelled lights for the background, creating a vibrant and fashionable look. The model is a female, and the photographer provides instructions throughout the video.
Light placement
Key light at 45 degrees camera left, hair light behind and above the subject, two background lights behind the subject aimed at the background.
How to build it
Four-light setup: beauty dish as key, snoot for hair light, and two red-gelled lights for the background, creating a soft red gradient. The model is lit to create a clean but not overtly dramatic shadow style. Appears to be a seamless paper background (white, initially) with color gels providing the red.
- Lighting style
- Key light is soft and directional, hair light provides separation, and background lights create a colored gradient.
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Diffused
- Shadows
- Clean shadows, Moody
- Background
- Gradient background, Colored gel, Seamless backdrop
- Colour
- Warm tones
- Visual mood
- Fashion-forward, Energetic, Dramatic, Commercial clean
Camera settings
Suggested starting point- Aperture
- f/8
- Shutter speed
- 1/160s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 85mm
- White balance
- Flash
Inferred standard studio portrait settings for controlled lighting and depth of field.
