Lighting setup
3-light Romantic with warm ambience and a projected heart pattern. lighting setup for catalogue / e-commerce with a Romantic, warm, intimate. mood using Beauty dish, Optical snoot with gobo, Red gel.
This video demonstrates a two-light setup for a romantic portrait with a heart-shaped background projection. The key light is provided by a beauty dish, and anoptical snoot with a heart gobo projects onto the white seamless background, a red-gelled light top bounced for overall red ambience. A large white reflector (cutter) is used as fill. The final image features a female model in a pink dress, captured from the thighs up, with overall warm tones.
Key light to the left of the subject, optical snoot with heart gobo behind the subject, red gelled light top bounced for ambience, and a white V-flat for fill to the right of the subject.
One light with a beauty dish is used as the key light. One light with an optical snoot and red gel is used for the heart-shaped background projection. a red-gelled light top bounced for overall red ambience. A white V-flat (cutter) serves as a fill.
Camera settings were not visible in the video frames. Inferred typical studio portrait settings.
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