New Lighting Set Up

   In our first digital image lesson back we was taught a whole new lighting set up that is perfect for our upcoming product which is to create and shoot beauty advert. In this first lesson we was told we'd learn two different set ups and this was the first one we have been advised to use for this project, this is because due to the light set up, placement and reflector walls it creates an overall softness to the image yet still maintaining definition to the image which is very popular in editorial shoots.  

What You'll Need:

1. 2 soft boxes
2. 1 beauty dish
3. 2 tripods
4. C-stands & diffusers
5. 1 boom stand
6. 1 camera & 50 / 85 / 100 lens
7. sync lead

   These three images above was shot with a 100 lens which is perfect for extreme close ups like on the eyes and lips. The images was also shot without a reflector which overall made the images look dark and not as bright as you'd want them to be when trying to create the illusion of lighter eyes or shiner lips, and this was the outcome after we placed a metallic reflector under the face.

   As you can see these images are so much more appealing and eye catching to look at compared to the images above as they're so much more brighter. However these images aren't amazing or great, they was trial and error to get the perfect lighting and also to practice on getting the selected facial features in focus.