Portrait Beauty Lighting With One Light

Add a touch of beauty to your portraits – no extra lights needed.

This portrait photography class follows closely from the previous chapter, where Karl demonstrated how to achieve a bold but soft effect, ideal for fashion or catalogue shots.

In this chapter, he builds on this, showing you how to modify the setup for more beauty-style images. Starting with just a simple modifier on a single light, Karl reveals the all-important accessory needed to bring this image to life and create a more flattering light.

To show the importance of this accessory, he shows clear comparisons with and without it and how it can elevate and enhance the original fashion-style image to the eye-catching beauty images that are the final results.

In this class:

  • Beauty photography using a single light
  • Lighting setups for beauty photography
  • How to soften shadows for stunning beauty images
  • Lighting setup modifications and the effect
  • Visual comparisons between different reflectors

Comments

  1. acroft911

    Hi Karl, I have a couple of questions. I’ve seen the curved reflectors, which are very reasonably priced; however, I’m looking for a true tri-reflector like that. Could you tell me who makes that one , please? And the second is regarding the lens you were using. I’m using a couple of Canon 5D mark III, the 70 -200mm f 2.8 is the only missing lens from my arsenal. Is that the mark I or mark II? I hear different opinions on this lens, some saying the mark II is considerably sharper. Could I ask for your opinion on this, please?

    1. Hi, the tri-reflector that I have is a very old one by Lastolite, I’ve had it about 25 years and I don’t think they make it anymore. The lens was a mark 1, again it was a lens that I’ve had for a very long time. Yes I’ve heard people mention that the mark 2 was sharper.

      1. acroft911

        Thanks, Karl, that’s great as far as I’m concerned, those pictures are sharp enough. It will save me a few quid to buy other stuff I need for my new studio.

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