Lighting setup

Romantic Portrait with Heart Gobo and Beauty Dish

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.

3 lightsRomantic with warm ambience and a projected heart pattern.Romantic, warm, intimate.catalogue
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Romantic Portrait with Heart Gobo and Beauty Dish — lighting diagram

Overview

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.

Gear & modifiers

  • Beauty dish
  • Optical snoot with gobo
  • Red gel
  • V-flat (cutter)

AI notes

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.

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