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.