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Category: Light Setups

We will show you different light setups and give you tips on how to set the lights. There are also instructions, tutorials and video trainings for set.a.light 3D. The focus is on people, portrait and fashion photography.

Unlocking the Art of Lighting: Thierry Sourbier Explores Diverse Approaches to Lighting Sets

Unlocking the Art of Lighting: Thierry Sourbier Explores Diverse Approaches to Lighting Sets

I’m a French photographer based in Nantes, I started “playing” with my first studio strobes in 2005. Since nothing replaces practice, I remember knocking on my neighbours’ doors to find “models” to experiment with my setups (my kids had only so much patience)… It is only in 2021 that I discovered set.a.light 3D, it has been quite a game changer for me (and my neighbours ahah)! I’ve since created hundreds of setups (a few can be found in the community:…

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Shooting Concepts: Athletic Sports Sets

Shooting Concepts: Athletic Sports Sets

Athletic Motion + Compositional Dynamics: “Fitness and sports photography is capturing humans in athletic movements and other fitness activities related to an individual’s health, well-being, and performance.” The above quote from photographer Leila Brewster is precisely what today’s excursion is all about: Shooting concepts from our community legends that involve various aspects of “athlete photography”.  It’s not only since we added fitness props to set.a.light 3D (V2.5.8d) that our community members are creating sets that display fitness action. No, this…

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In the studio with Ron Hautau – Get creative with colored gels + Lighting Setups explained

In the studio with Ron Hautau – Get creative with colored gels + Lighting Setups explained

Cincinnati (Ohio) based photographer Ron Hautau created a dynamic and colorful lighting series in set.a.light 3D, that will catch your eye. Using colored gels, he was able to manipulate the light in a direction of an art aesthetic. He explains, that some of these setups were inspired by futuristic sci-fi movies, like “Ghost in the Shell” and that he played with having the model look like a clone mannequin on some of the snapshots, that fitted well with the sci-fi…

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Scenes with a special story

Scenes with a special story

Did you know that set.a.light 3D is used by creatives for a wide variety of purposes?  Apart from planning a shooting, the 3D studio can also be used to create crazy scenes that would not necessarily be possible in reality. This invites you to let your imagination run wild and to turn the world upside down. So today we present you two setups from our Community members Vip2000 and Maks Alokhin, which are worth looking at twice and exploring the…

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The Power Of Using Grids With Gels – Video Tutorial with Lindsay Adler

The Power Of Using Grids With Gels – Video Tutorial with Lindsay Adler

“Grids are really important, especially when you`re working in small spaces. If the light is going where you don`t intend it to and if the light is bouncing on surfaces you don`t intend it to, a grid can help you out.” Lindsay Adler. Based in New York City, fashion photographer Lindsay Adler has risen to the top of her industry, not only as a photographer but also as an educator. Her fashion editorials have appeared in various fashion and photography…

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High Power Posing vs. Low Power Posing – the body language has a huge influence on the effect of your pictures

High Power Posing vs. Low Power Posing – the body language has a huge influence on the effect of your pictures

The body language of your model has an enormous influence on the visual impact of your photos. We tell you how you can support the expressiveness of your pictures by planned posing and show you with examples what is behind the terms “High Power” & “Low Power” Poses. As a photographer, you don’t always get a model in front of the lens who is practiced in posing and is also aware of the effect of its poses, for example in…

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Creativity in every corner

Creativity in every corner

Set.a.light 3D enables completely new possibilities to express and shape your creativity. Our community member Pedersen was particularly creative and created this incredible setup with set.a.light 3D, which is not only a real eye-catcher in its finished version. If you take a look at the studio view, you can see the full extent of creativity and dedication that Pedersen has used to design such a complex lighting setup. You don´t know the set.a.light 3D community yet? You can find all…

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Let´s be alone… together

Let´s be alone… together

Current information about Corona (Covid-19)The current situation demands special attention and responsibility from all of us for ourselves and our fellow human beings. We at elixxier hope that the global situation will stabilize again soon and that you and your loved ones can get through this difficult time healthy and safely. Our team is still available for you on all channels. We are safe and have taken all precautions to continue developing for you as usual. And we can already…

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30 awesome light setups for set.a.light 3D V2.0

30 awesome light setups for set.a.light 3D V2.0

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For Halloween, we’re giving you a treat! We have prepared a total of 30 new light setups for you to download: For editing, trying out, having fun! set.a.light 3D V2.0 offers even more creative scope and exciting possibilities. Of course we don’t want to withhold these from you!   To create this cool lounge feeling, honeycombs were used. A total of four light sources provide this balanced image. But there’s a completely different way: here only one light source is…

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Huge package: 30 light setups bundle for you!

Huge package: 30 light setups bundle for you!

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Who needs some new ideas and likes free light setups? We do! That’s why our dear friend Christian vom Hofe  has been very creative and we’re able to bring you something special, before we go straight to our V2.0! Do you lack some inspiration? Do you need a little hint for new ideas? – Say no more! We have a huge package with 30 cool lighting setups for you to dwonload here! Just one light and a simple style, or do you like…

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