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The mood and simplicity of low-key lighting make it especially effective. So when Ulorin Vex appeared out of the dressing room with this black dress, I knew it would work very well with a low-key set-up in the studio.<\/p>\n
We had set up the darker background for previous outfits, but for this black dress, the simplified lighting – just a\u00a0Profoto beauty dish<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>)\u00a0– worked especially well. There were two lights behind her to show off the curves against the dark background. \u00a0The gridded softboxes are exactly the same as shown in a previous article:\u00a0high-key studio lighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the pull-back shot to show how the lights were positioned:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The main light was the\u00a0Profoto beauty dish<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>)\u00a0powered by a Profoto D1 studio\u00a0light (500 Ws)<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>). I had a sock over the beauty dish to soften the light a bit more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n With this orange dress, I wanted some soft pattern in the background which in a way would complement the tiger-ish stripes of the dress.<\/p>\n To accomplish this, I set up the one Profoto head with a sheet of\u00a0Rosco Matte Black CineFoil<\/a>\u00a0(affiliate<\/em>) in front of it. The CineFoil had some tears ripped into it to let random streaks of light through. It took some practice to get a pattern that worked. The CineFoil is sturdy enough to not flop around, and can easily be shaped. Being foil, it is also heat-resistant. The matte black color helps contain the light, and not scatter it.<\/p>\n Some of the final test shots, which show a wider view of the pattern:<\/p>\n Finally, I aimed for a mild\u00a0Chiaroscuro effect<\/a>. The main light was still the beauty dish, with the other (bare) head set up to give a soft spread of light on the background. \u00a0With Chiaroscuro lighting, the direction of the light on your subject is in the opposite direction compared to the light falling on the background. This gives two gradients to the final lighting, with the shadowed areas of your subject against the brighter areas of the background.<\/p>\n While this photo of Ulorin Vex doesn’t fall along the lines of the classic way of lighting a portrait with Chiaroscuro lighting, it was the approach to setting up my lights here to have that gradient in the background help define her shape.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Studio photography:\u00a0Low-key lighting variations The mood and simplicity of low-key lighting make it especially effective. 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