What this setup creates
A fashion shoot featuring a female model in a blue top and striped fabric on an orange seamless background, utilizing an octagonal softbox with grid as key and a strip softbox as fill/backlight for a bright, energetic look.
Light placement
Key Light: Camera Left, slightly in front of the model. Separation/Background Light: Camera Right, behind the model.
How to build it
Key Light: Octa with Grid, Camera Left, slightly in front of the model. Separation/Background Light: Strip Light, Camera Right, behind the model. Goal is to light the model, not the background. Bright orange background for color contrast. Two lights, clear jobs, controlled result.
- Lighting style
- Two lights, gridded octa for subject, strip light for background and separation. Controlled spill.
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Diffused, Low contrast
- Shadows
- Clean shadows
- Background
- Seamless backdrop
- Colour
- Warm tones, Neutral
- Visual mood
- Fashion-forward, Commercial clean, Energetic, Dramatic
Camera settings
From the tutorial- Aperture
- f/9
- Shutter speed
- 1/160 sec
- ISO
- 200
Focal length and white balance not specified in notes. White balance could be inferred as Flash or a cool Kelvin to contrast with the orange background, but without a specific instruction, it's best left as unknown.