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Vanessa BTS light setup

Hey there!
Last week i posted new set with Vanessa and also a long bts video of that shoot.
Here you have the light setup explanation.

It is a 3 light setup:
Main light is a 1200D Aputure with 160cm SMDV softbox on it (my main light very very often).
In the back I have 2 Nova 300 Aputure RGB Panels with red/orange color tone. Nova panel on the left is directed at the background to create a warm gradient effect and the panel on the right is directed at the models back/side.

On the floor I used 3 acrylic black panels, which are high reflective/glossy.
Left and right from the model I had black curtains/boards to keep contrast high in this set and the shadows dark.

I positioned the main light on the left side, so it hits the model mostly sideways, and her other side is kept in the shadow. As the light source is very big, I put another board in front of the softbox to reduce the size of the light surface which shines on the model and also to reduce the spill light in the room (and also so the light doesnt hit the camera lens).

As you see in the bts video I started the shoot with very saturated orange light in the background but then I reduced the saturation of the background light, so it was more balanced picture overall and I dont really like too saturated photos. After that the Nova panels stayed the same, but I changed the intensity and the position of my main light from time to time as I usually do, to have different light angles and brightness on the model and the foreground to change the mood of the picture.
As you see in the last 2 bts pictures I turned the main light away from the model at the end, so the light spills a little bit in her direction, hitting her with very soft light, but not hitting the model directly and the overall picture was darker / moody.

While I was editing the pictures I used new AI functions in adobe photoshop to add some interesting surface to the black panels under the model. I tried typing in something like "black fluid floor surface" and generated so many times, till I got some usable results :)

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