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Basic Two Light Setups by Ricknunn.com

Hi, I was looking through google images for some light modifiers while working on a project about generating light diagrams and stumbled upon a very nice website+blog by Rick Nunn . Well it all started when I surfed Rick’s site, it has a very cool layout and liked it a lot, every post has a lighting setup diagram and a nice equipment widget area, youl’d have to visit the site to check what I’m talking about.

So Rick loves to teach you some of his stuff and show you how things are done, and many times its pretty easy and strait forward.It picked two lighting setups tutorials that I loved best (although you’ll probably find other tuts helpful too `-) )

1.Two lights setup while having some available light:

Rick brakes the setup to three (actually four) main steps:

  1. Metering the correct exposure to bring some light from behind.He went here to ISO200, f/2 and 1/80.I like the wide aperture Rick choose here, Would need to take a wide Aperture to bring enough light in and get a shallow DOP.
  2. Adding the main lights, a 580EX into a Westcott Apollo. Adjusting the flash power and softbox distance for the desired effect.
  3. Adding fill light , a 430EX in an umbrella box.
  4. Shooting as many images as possible.
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Basic Lighting Setups-Paramount(Butterfly)

There are some popular and basic setups used for portrait photography.

The paramount lighting is a very popular lighting setup for shooting female models, also called sometimes Butterfly Lighting as the shape of the shadow it creates under the nose.This lighting setup is common glamour lighting style. It works best suites models with strong cheek bones and good skin.You usually don’t use  The paramount (Butterfly) lighting setup for shooting male subjects.

Main tips for this setup:

  1. Place the main light high (above the camera/lens axis) and the fill light directly under it (under the camera/lens axis).
  2. Keep the light close to the subject.
  3. This setup is called the butterfly because it shapes a butterfly shadow under the models nose.
  4. Be careful not to place their eyes in shadow.
  5. Fill light is placed roughly at head height.
  6. The fill light can be accompanied or even replaced by a reflector under the face of your model,to lighten the shadows under the chin and lower cheek.

Examples will be available soon.

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