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Red Background Portrait with Butterfly Lighting

1-light Classic butterfly lighting with a single bare beauty dish on a seamless red background. lighting setup for portrait / fashion with a Confident and bold with vibrant red tones. mood using Bare beauty dish.

1 lightClassic butterfly lighting with a single bare beauty dish on a seamless red background.Confident and bold with vibrant red tones.portrait

Lighting diagram

Red Background Portrait with Butterfly Lighting — lighting diagram

Complete setup guide

What this setup creates

A single bare beauty dish lighting a female model in a red dress on a red seamless background.

Light placement

A single bare beauty dish is placed directly in front of the subject, slightly above head height. This creates a butterfly lighting pattern on the model's face.

How to build it

Single bare beauty dish in butterfly position. Seamless red background. The subject is in a red dress.

Lighting style: Classic butterfly lighting with a single bare beauty dish on a seamless red background.
Key light: Butterfly
Light quality: Soft light, Low contrast
Shadows: Clean shadows
Background: Seamless backdrop
Colour: Warm tones
Visual mood: Vintage, Dramatic, Commercial clean

Camera settings

From the tutorial

Aperture: f/9
Shutter speed: 1/160s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24-105mm

Camera settings extracted from the lighting diagram.

Gear & modifiers

Bare beauty dish

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