Lighting setup

Fashion Portrait with Red Gel Gradient Background

3-light High-key with dramatic background lighting. lighting setup for catalogue / fashion with a Striking and edgy, focusing on fashion and attitude. mood using Large parabolic softbox with grid, Red gels.

3 lightsHigh-key with dramatic background lighting.Striking and edgy, focusing on fashion and attitude.catalogue
Lighting diagram
Fashion Portrait with Red Gel Gradient Background — lighting diagram

Complete setup guide

What this setup creates

A studio fashion photoshoot featuring a female model using a large parabolic softbox as key light and red gelled lights for a gradient background and no direct fill light.

Light placement

One large parabolic softbox with a grid to the right of the camera at 45 degrees, two lights with red gels on the background.

How to build it

Key light is a large parabolic softbox with a grid. Two lights with red gels create a gradient on the white seamless background. No direct fill light is used.

Lighting style
High-key with dramatic background lighting.
Key light
45 degree
Light quality
Soft light, High contrast
Shadows
Clean shadows, Moody
Background
Gradient background, Colored gel, Seamless backdrop
Colour
Warm tones, Cinematic teal-orange
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
5500K

Inferred standard studio portrait settings for a clean, sharp image with good depth of field and color accuracy.

Gear & modifiers

  • Large parabolic softbox with grid
  • Red gels
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