Lighting setup
2-light Colored gel lighting with creative flares. lighting setup for portrait / fashion with a Intimate, dramatic, captivating. mood using Beauty dish with grid, Red gel, Stick light.
This video demonstrates a studio lighting setup featuring a beauty dish with a grid and red gel as the key light, and an RGB stick light as a magenta fill/accent light. The setup creates a moody, stylized portrait with strong color casts and lens flare.
Key light (beauty dish) at 45 degrees camera left, fill/accent light (stick light) behind and to the right of the subject.
The key light is a beauty dish with a grid and a large piece of crumpled red gel for diffusion and color. The fill/accent light is a stick light set to magenta, positioned to create lens flares. The background is a white seamless paper picking up the color casts from the lights.
Inferred standard studio portrait settings for controlled lighting and depth of field.
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