What this setup creates
A video showcasing a studio lighting setup for a model, featuring a large softbox with a grid, a beauty dish, an optical snoot with a gobo for patterned shadows, and a hair light. The final image shows a female model posing with soft, even lighting and artistic patterned shadows on the background.
Light placement
Key light is 45 degrees, camera left. Hair light is behind the subject. Optical snoot projects pattern onto the background. Beauty dish used for main fill.
How to build it
The key light is a large softbox with a grid placed at 45 degrees to the camera left. A beauty dish is used as the fill light. An optical snoot with a gobo projects a patterned shadow onto the white seamless background. A snoot acts as a hair light.
- Lighting style
- Soft key light with textured background and hair light
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Low contrast
- Shadows
- Clean shadows, Dramatic shadows
- Background
- Seamless backdrop, Texture projection
- Colour
- Neutral
- Visual mood
- Luxury, Premium, Fashion-forward
Camera settings
Suggested starting point- Aperture
- f/8
- Shutter speed
- 1/160s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 85mm
- White balance
- Daylight
Standard studio portrait settings for controlled lighting and sharp focus. White balance adjusted for neutral tones.