Chapter 2: Starting with portrait photography

Portrait photography contains images of living things, mostly humans, but also creatures and animals. This famous genre of photography is all about “showing them in their correct light” as one would say. We want to point out characteristics of them or capture their emotions or their physical and emotional condition. Age, attractiveness,. beuaty or gender do mostly play a submissive ... Read More »

FAST GLAM – Light Modifiers: Beauty Dish

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 ... Read More »

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

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 ... Read More »

Tips and Support for set.a.light 3D Users

We have created a few short explainer videos for you to ensure you’ll have a great user experience with set.a.light 3D. The videos are created in an extremely short and sweet style to actually make it fun watching them. This allows you to quickly learn how to work effectively with set.a.light 3D. 1# Lichtformer tauschen, Duplizieren (kopieren), DragOptionWatch this video ... Read More »

Prior Notice – Movable Models

Posing Mannequins, one control element – endless possibilities You want it, you get it – on popular demand, we are currently working under high pressure to present you moving models. Through a simple control element, you will be able to bring the model to the desired pose. So you can plan incredibly flexible and creative your light setting. Now you can ... Read More »

“Photo against a white background” the full light setup of amazons patent

The media and public already took a good shot at this: U.S. Patent 8,676,045 from amazon is basically a photo against a white background! Because everybody only shows drawings we thought we provide you with a light setup and make it available for download. The patent in itself is the standard method with which photographers light an object or person in front of a seamless white background. ... Read More »

Four Point Light Setup by Dan Hostettler

We are always glad to see how other photographers use our software. And last week we were very excited when we saw how Dan Hostettler used set.a.light 3D Studio for his work. He described an “Accentuated Low-Key” four point light setup that is directed at more experienced photographer, but he does a very good explaining it in simple terms and with a lot of examples ... Read More »