Creating a tall main background and adding ring lights is a great way to add a really professional touch to your images, but doing so can take three or four more lights on top of whatever you’re using for lighting. your subject, often making it particularly bulky. What if you could add backlighting and high key trim with just a single light? This great video tutorial will show you how.
Coming to you from Lindsay Adler Photography, this awesome video tutorial will show you how to use softbox to create striking high key background and border lighting all in one. What’s particularly interesting about this technique is that Adler actually manipulated the softbox to cast a teal-blue fringing light on the subject, but by overexposing the background the background itself appeared white. The great part about this is that it saves you a lot of time and effort from having to set up lots of additional lights (and assuming you own all of them from the start) and it produces results. great without much work. . Watch the video above for a full summary from Adler.
