Lighting setup

Red and Magenta Lit Portrait with Beauty Dish

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.

2 lightsColored gel lighting with creative flares.Intimate, dramatic, captivating.portrait
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Red and Magenta Lit Portrait with Beauty Dish — lighting diagram

Overview

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.

Gear & modifiers

  • Beauty dish with grid
  • Red gel
  • Stick light
  • Magenta gel/setting

AI notes

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.

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