What this setup creates
A tutorial demonstrating a portrait lighting setup using a beauty dish with a grid as the key light and a bare bulb as a backlight, against a seamless beige background.
Light placement
Key light to the right of the standing subject (camera left from seated subject), backlight to the left and behind subjects.
How to build it
The key light is a beauty dish with a grid, positioned 45 degrees to illuminate the front of both subjects. The bare bulb backlight creates a rim light on the left side of the subjects. Beige seamless background.
- Lighting style
- Two-light setup with diffused key and edge backlight.
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Diffused
- Shadows
- Clean shadows
- Background
- Seamless backdrop
- Colour
- Warm tones
- Visual mood
- Natural, Commercial clean
Camera settings
From the tutorial- Aperture
- f/9
- Shutter speed
- 1/200s
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 24-105mm
Camera: Canon R6 m2