Gaining a strong grasp of lighting is essential not only to producing technically competent photographs but for developing a personal creative style as well. If you are struggling a bit to get up and running, check out this fantastic video tutorial that will show you a versatile and effective portrait lighting setup that is useful for a wide variety of scenarios.
Coming to you from Manny Ortiz, this great video tutorial will show you an effective portrait lighting setup useful for a wide range of scenarios. As you will see in the video, you have to pay attention to both your subject-to-light distance and light-to-background distance as well, as when you are using the same lights for both the background and the subject, you cannot decouple the exposures of the two through settings; rather, you have to control them through relative source distances, which can sometimes get overlooked when you are newer to lighting and focused mostly on getting your subject lit correctly. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Ortiz.
If you would like to continue learning about lighting, be sure to check out "Illuminating The Face: Lighting for Headshots and Portraits With Peter Hurley!"
