What this setup creates
A female subject is lit with a large parabolic umbrella as key and a bare light as hair light, all against a bright orange seamless background.
Light placement
Key light camera-left (approx. 45 degrees front), bare hair light camera-right behind subject.
How to build it
The primary light is a large parabolic umbrella acting as the key. A bare bulb or strobe serves as a rim/hair light from behind. Fill is subtle, likely ambient or a reflector not explicitly shown. Seamless orange paper background.
- Lighting style
- Key light provides soft, diffused illumination. Hair light creates a hard rim. Overall moderate contrast.
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Hard light
- Shadows
- Clean shadows
- Background
- Seamless backdrop
- Colour
- Warm tones, Neutral
- Visual mood
- Natural, Commercial clean
Camera settings
Suggested starting point- Aperture
- f/8
- Shutter speed
- 1/160s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 50mm
- White balance
- Flash
Inferred standard studio portrait settings for soft, clean lighting.