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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.

8 light setups with beautiful backdrops (+ Download)

8 light setups with beautiful backdrops (+ Download)

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Well, that’s a great present that came in shortly before christmas! We’ve got 8 new lighting setups for you – try them out, play around with them and shoot many great pictures and photos using them! The download is located down below at the end of the article. [box type=”note” ]With newly designed backdrops (backgrounds), our friend Stefan Kohler from RAWexchange.de produced these eight cool setups. Doesn’t matter whether you like it fancy, sexy or chic – everyone is going to find a suitable setup…

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Get creative with set.a.light 3D – an example

Get creative with set.a.light 3D – an example

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A great example on how to easily experiment around and learn with set.a.light 3D! [box type=”note” ]A few days ago Heiko Kanzler, who has been in our interview-series as well, posted an experience from a shooting of his in our Facebook-Community. With Heiko’s approval we took this post to show you guys, how easy it is to develop your own ideas and get creative with set.a.light. Of course, the .set-file is available down there at the end of the article. Have fun ;)[/box] This week I…

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Composing can be quite simple

Composing can be quite simple

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What’s the special thing about composing? Well, you’ll be able to create pictures that won’t occur like that in nature or wouldn’t be feasible otherwise. You can step up the game by unleashing all of your creativity on your work and express yourself just as you like – there are no limits. If you want to create a composing and i.e. insert a person into an exisiting picture, we’ll have to answer this question: How do I know about the…

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A sensual Glamour Bikini Shooting can be easily achieved – Joe Edelman shows you how to! (Video)

A sensual Glamour Bikini Shooting can be easily achieved – Joe Edelman shows you how to! (Video)

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How to conjure a simple and sensual Glamour Biniki Shooting in only 5 to 10 minutes? In his video Joe Edelman shows you how to create a lighting setup using only 3–5 flash heads. To create a little twist he’s using orange coloured films and shows you how to use them. Afterwards he shows you how to realize the lighting setup with Speedlights. You don’t always need to use an expensive flash unit to accomplish amazing pictures! In the video…

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The Mother of all Lighting Setups – the Rembrandt Light

The Mother of all Lighting Setups – the Rembrandt Light

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Naming: Let’s take a quick excursion into the past right at the beginning and see why the Rembrandt Light is called Rembrandt Light. :-) The artist and painter Rembrandt (whose full name actually was “Rembrandt van Rijn”) used a certain lighting style (portrait lighting) for many of his famous paintings and graphics. For many years, Rembrandt intensively studied the effects of light and shadow. While doing so, he perfected the illumination of his portraits further and further which ultimately led…

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Effective Portrait Lighting Setup with 4 Flash Heads – How to Read Images the Right Way

Effective Portrait Lighting Setup with 4 Flash Heads – How to Read Images the Right Way

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You can quickly find a pretty photo on the internet – but how did the lighting setup look like?  Let’s take a closer look at a portrait together and think about how we can trace back to the matching lighting setup from here. Meaning, we want to detect the lighting set by reading the finished image and find out how the studio and lighting setup could have been arranged. How do you usually prepare yourself for an imminent photo shoot?…

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ONE-LIGHT-SETUPS / Black-White

ONE-LIGHT-SETUPS / Black-White

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>HERE< you can download a file with eight one-light-septups for set.a.light 3D! Note: Your browser (Internet Explorer) may change the file name ending from .set to .zip after downloading. To solve this, please change the ending from .zip to .set after downloading. Even if you have no license, you can open the file and view the Settings! How to do this, read HERE. Each light setup was put into practice by using only one light source, making it easy for you to…

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Chapter 5: The use of light

Chapter 5: The use of light

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More light sources do NOT automatically mean a better photo. That’s why you’re able to capture great pictures with only one flash head. It’s more of a matter with the general lighting and the right moment. Main question of lighting: What’s the later use of this picture? Application photo: If you’d like to shoot a picture for an application, you should look for a even lighting in the face of the model, no shadows should cover parts of it. It…

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FAST GLAM – Light Modifiers: Beauty Dish

FAST GLAM – Light Modifiers: Beauty Dish

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A beauty dish is a large, bowl-like reflective circular dish which ranges anywhere from 16 to 30 inches in diameter and is mostly used when shooting portraits and glam-style imagery. “FAST GLAM” Photo Shot feat. Melisa Mendini Creating a generally softer light is one of the functions of a beauty dish. Its coated interior which reduces basic highlights is what causes the light to appear softer in the first place. But if a dish has a silver coating, it will make light “edgier”…

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How to Use a Finished Image to Determine its Lighting Setup in Reverse?

How to Use a Finished Image to Determine its Lighting Setup in Reverse?

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In this video, we show you how you can backtrack and re-establish an original lighting setup on basis of a finished image: Vom fertigen Bild rückwärts zum Lichtsetting – set.a.light 3D | DEWatch this video on YouTube- Mit Klick auf das Video, wird eine Verbindung zu Youtube aufgebaut, es gelten damit die Datenschutzbestimmungen von Youtube. – The first step is to adjust the room inside of the software to the later studio – this is important because set.a.light 3D also…

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