So let's have a look at some four light techniques. Now, we're going to look at a four light standard with gradient standard white background beauty rim on white, super soft, beauty light beauty shot on a budget. So we're going to show you how to create a beauty sharp with just a few umbrellas and simple lights. And then we're going to look at some Hollywood lighting. So lots of different things to look at here. So here we have a standard for light on a gradient backdrop.

So let's just see what we've done here is a pretty standard portray or models not looking very happy here. I should have put a bit more of a smile on a face. But anyway, let's just go and have a look at how we set this light up. Again, full face into the camera. We've got a main light and a fill light shooting with an open loop pattern. quite high and above on this shot higher than I would normally Go.

And I've also got a rim over the shoulder. But we've also got a spot shining into the background. And what we do is we will block that light there like that. And that would stop that shining on our subject. And then now we've got a very straightforward for light studio set up, very pleasing, very straightforward, very simple, and a pretty standard corporate portrait setup. So this is a four light with a white background.

So if we had four lights and wanted to blow out the background, this is what we would do. So let's have a look at what we actually do to our lighting. Please remember that all of these lighting setups are available as PDF downloads. So we've got two spots on the background behind the subjects we don't have to worry too much about flagging because most of the lights go on to the background. And then we've got the main and the fill. So pretty straightforward to be honest, once you start understanding about the main and the fail and the background, the difficulty with blowing out a white background is getting rep back on the subjects aren't wrapping around, but we're far enough away in this instance, that that is not going to happen.

So that's pretty basic setup. Let's have a look at our next for light setup. This is a for light beauty on what you'll see this a lot. There's a lot of this goes into the magazines. Very, very popular at the moment. So let's have a look at that.

Now as you can see, we're creating some interesting variations on the standard here. So what have we got we've got our beauty dish in the butterfly lighting position. And then we've got two large OtterBox Is, which are given us some really strong wraps I find just move this round and move this back for you and so you can see where they are. We're using that heavy wrap we showed you in the window light section, we're using it on both sides. And that's given us a nice wrap around the subject. Now we've only got four lights.

So what I've used is a large softbox to light the background, and it's going to give me a nice large area and uneven lighting. Now oftentimes in product photography, this is a technique we use on a smaller scale to actually blow out the background so I don't have to do a lot of Photoshop in terms of getting my background to white. But in this instance we've used as you can see, to create this box of light almost. Now we still got a bit of gray in the background down here so I wouldn't be fully happy with this. But the lighting on the front the face is very even. In fact that probably take the beauty dish up a little bit more on this one.

There we are, we've got a little bit more of a highlight in the nose now. So that's a standard wrap beauty shop. So here we've got a four light and we want to go beauty super soft. So we really want to get the skin luminescence up on the skin brightness up, we want to have a real nice, soft look. So have we done that? In this instance, let's just have a look at the for light beauty super soft, and see what we did in the studio.

So what did we do different? Well, it was the same setup and all we've done now rather than light the backdrop is we've put a small strip light underneath and we're pushing some light up and the subject so that slight variation now is going to give us a bit more lift under the chin. So let's have a look at that. Now we've got some really nice luminescence under the chin, the skin is nice and soft. We've probably got a little bit of heat on the forehead here. And we've got a nice little line of light going down the front of the nose.

So that's a classic beauty setup. Now when we take the same approach, and let's just change things up again a little bit. What we want to do is blow the background out here and this is a extremely popular way of shooting beauty lighting at the moment. Let me show you this setup. Now this tends to be quite an expensive way of doing it because these free softboxes won't be cheap. But I want to show you it because what you've got, you're shooting into a softbox you have to be careful about the power ratio.

You got two soft boxes on the side and you've got beauty dish and the strip box underneath, lighting the front the subjects face. So that's going to give us a really, really, really super soft beauty look. And that's how the top guys do this type of lighting that literally have a softbox behind the subject. And again, all the ratios for this are in the PDF so make sure you check them out. If you want to have a look at the power outputs and how it was set and the distances and everything and the effect we got. It becomes quite powerful.

When you see it like this with that white just in the background, the beautiful rap the really clean look. All the makeup adverts nearly always use this type of lighting setup for the video shoot a lot of the time really clean really clinical, really pure and innocent. So very powerful lighting setup and I do like this setup, I must admit Okay, That's great, but what if you haven't got all that equipment? What if you can't afford all that equipment? Well, let me show you a full light beauty budget shot. So in this scenario what we've got free umbrellas and a reflective umbrella.

So the trick here is we're going to use some number lighting which is lighting using the edge of the light source. So that's going to be off fill on the subject but it's also going to blow the background out a bit. Then we've got the light set up the main light shooting for an umbrella and then fell on the reflective umbrella underneath. And what that does, is that gives us a beauty lightness not going to be as good as the supersoft all is beautiful light sources, but you'd be surprised how close you can get to the mark. So this is the for light budget beauty shop. And this is the full beauty shot you can see there's a difference in quality of light around the face.

There's a lot more shadow on this, it's much more difficult to blow the skin out completely, you could try bringing the umbrellas in a little bit closer. But if you're on a budget and you want to get a beauty shot in there, you'll see though like you've got some highlights on the nose is a little bit hot here and on the forehead. And that's what happens because we've umbrellas you don't get the control. But if that's all you got, then this will be a great place to start. And you can always take down those highlights in Photoshop afterwards by looking up some Photoshop tutorials on removing glare from skin it's quite easy to do. So there you go.

There's our full light section but we have one more section to go through which is the Hollywood lighting. So let's pop and have a look at that in the next lecture