So let's have a look at some two light techniques now. So we've got a pretty standard styles, we're going to do a simple to light to light spot to light fill standard to light highlight, to like rim and to like clamshell. So these are pretty much bread and butter type lighting techniques. So let's have a look at some of these. So here's a simple to light, we've got a main on the subject, and then we've got a background light. So this is a pretty straightforward portrait type setup.

As we can see, in this instance, we've chose to go with a small softbox lighting the subject and we've got the spotlights on the back. So nice and simple, straightforward. To light setup. You notice we've actually got the spotlight quite low and the reason is we want the light to come in a gray And so if I put it to hide, there'll be a bright spot in the top right corner. Putting it here means the gradient comes from behind the shoulder and up over the top. So that's the reason I put the spotlight down there.

And we're using an open loop lighting pattern again. So pretty straightforward stuff. So now what we've got is a two lights spot and this is a slight variation. If you've ever watched me on one of my Hangouts, you'll probably see me I'm using my black background. This is what I will be using for my video lighting. So how is this different last one, let's have a look.

So in this scenario, as you can see, we've got spot behind the subject. shedding some light on the background, we've got it quite close to create sort of a hot spot so to speak on the background and that gives us the effect behind the subject. Please remember, all of these settings are available as PDFs. So don't worry, if you're wondering how far what the power is nothing. All that information will be in the resource section for this lecture. So there we go.

That's a very simple one. And what this does, it just brings a spot behind the shoulders. I'm a particular fan of this look, he can take the power down a little bit if you want an easy off, but it creates a bit of separation from the background. So this is a two light standard fill. So if you're just using two lights, we're going to main and we've got to fill light. So let's just have a look.

See what they look like. So here we have the two lights. As you can see, they're both pretty, even 45 degrees from the subject. And we've got main and our fill. So we're shooting him out with a little bit of an open loop. pattern just coming up, cross the nose.

Yeah, very open. Actually, this is a variation between an open loop and a beauty shot, we're coming around, and it's sort of halfway between the two. But it's a pretty standard portrait look for a man. It's quite an open loop. Nice sort of light on this side of the subject and we've got a bit of fill, just to lift the shadows. And on this one, now what we've got is a two light highlight.

So as we can see, we've got a lot of hair light rim across the back of the shoulders and around the hair. Unless what that looks like, pretty straightforward. You need a boom arm for this to get this up in the air like that. As you can see, main light hasn't changed from the last shot. And now we've got this rim going over the shoulders. Creating that particular look.

And then we've got our to like rim. So slight variation, instead of having a hair like this time, we're going to apply a rim. So what we've essentially done is moved it from above and shooting over the shoulder. And now we have a rim, you could add another light on your side and have a double rim. In fact, we're gonna have some examples of that later on in the free light section with some variation. But that's a pretty standard lighting setup.

Quite pleasing, quite strong, works very well on the males and if you only had two lights and you wanted to soften the shadow, you could always put a reflector in on that side of the face and just bounce a little bit of light back in. And here we have a pretty standard two light clamshell. So we're going to use some butterfly lighting for the main light and then we're going to put some fill underneath. And this is very often used for beauty shots, makeup shots. If you want to take the texture out of a lady's skin, especially the ladies who might be a little bit more mature, it's gonna be very flattering for them. So this is a two light clamshell pattern, we've got our main light on the face here.

And then we've got some fill underneath this power ratio will be probably half of this one. Again, like I said, all the power ratios, distances and everything are included in the PDF for each of these examples, but I want to show you a visual representation. So you can see how we would actually set the lights up in the studio. So that's a very, very useful lighting technique, especially if you're taking portraits of the ladies. Now what I want to show you here is I want to just do a quick camera movement. I'm just going to zoom out.

I'm just gonna move the camera around here. And I want to show you what happens when you leave the lighting the subject in the same place, but just move the camera. So what I'm going to do here, I'm just going to come to an approximate two thirds view. Let's just switch that over so we can see. And obviously we've got we'd have to deal with the background a little bit on this. In fact, I'm going to do that for you very quickly.

Wide in the backdrop in this instance. So now what we can see is we've moved the camera and now we've got this even as beauty lighting. By moving the camera we've created a different angle, a different profile. So sometimes when you got the subject lit up Just pick the camera, move it around, take some different images, take some different angles, try some different looks and see what you get. You'll have to adjust your background to suit like I just did then by innocence since it's very easy on a virtual studio I can just increase the lamp be much have a panel you put behind the subject and move it around as you move. But you can create some interesting, dramatic looks just by changing the angle of the camera.

In this instance, I've gone from a full face shot to two thirds view with beauty lighting, and it's quite flattering or the virtual subjects here