What this setup creates
This video demonstrates a two-light studio portrait setup using a Bare beauty dish as the key light and a large octagonal softbox as fill. The model is photographed against a warm brown seamless background, resulting in a soft, warm, and natural-looking portrait.
Light placement
Key light to camera top, fill light to camera left. Fill is off-centred.
How to build it
The setup utilizes an beauty dish as the key light and a octabox as the fill, fill is positioned off-center.
- Lighting style
- Balanced, soft lighting with minimal shadows.
- Key light
- 45 degree
- Light quality
- Soft light, Low contrast
- Shadows
- Clean shadows, Flat lighting
- Background
- Seamless backdrop
- Colour
- Warm tones, Neutral
- Visual mood
- Commercial clean, Premium, Fashion-forward
Camera settings
Suggested starting point- Aperture
- f/8
- Shutter speed
- 1/160s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 85mm
- White balance
- 5500K
Inferred standard studio portrait settings for balanced exposure and sharp focus.