2 light portrait setup

If you’re looking for some creative three light portrait ideas, I’ve put together three different setups you can add to your arsenal. These setups use only basic modifiers and show effective techniques that can help add three-dimensionality to an image. Get a little help with our two light portraiture classes and useful lighting setups and diagrams for two light portraits.

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A striplight 35*150, and a 80*120 Neoland

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Studio lighting can be a scary thing if you haven’t used it before. It’s not as scary as you might think! Home studios can be set up with minimal gear but still create a big impact. Here are 5 lighting setups all done with just one light, one modifier, one reflector, and one v-flat. You don’t need to have a huge space to shoot these setups I’m going to discuss. You don’t have to go spend a ton on this gear starting out either! When I started my studio, I shot with lighting that was under…

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Big lighting setups are commonplace when one ventures on YouTube looking for portrait tutorials. Within a few minutes, you will probably stumble across half a dozen kits that require something similar to two strip softboxes, a 59” Parabolic, a 48” Octa, an Eyelighter, and a 5-in-1 reflector – you know, the basics. The folks over ... Read more