What this setup creates
A female model in a green outfit is photographed against a warm, seamless background using a large octagonal softbox as the key light, a reflector for fill, and a bare strobe for backlight separation. The lighting creates a soft, commercial look.
Light placement
Key light camera-left (45 degrees), reflector camera-right, backlight overhead behind subject.
How to build it
One large octagonal softbox provides the key light from camera-left. A light hitting on white foam board helps fill shadows from camera-right. A bare strobe with a standard reflector bowl provides separation from the background as a hair/backlight. The background is a seamless light brown/beige paper.
- Lighting style
- Soft, even illumination with good separation from the background.
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Diffused, Low contrast
- Shadows
- Clean shadows, Flat lighting
- Background
- Seamless backdrop
- Colour
- Warm tones
- Visual mood
- Commercial clean, Natural
Camera settings
Suggested starting point- Aperture
- f/8
- Shutter speed
- 1/160s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 85mm
- White balance
- Flash
Inferred standard studio portrait settings for strobes and soft lighting.