So let's have a look at closed loop lighting, as the name suggests, is very, very similar to open loop. But let's go and have a look and see how we set that up what that looks like how we identify. So here is classic closed loop lighting. Now the reason this is closed loop is we have a loop under the eye. And now the nose shadows coming across and touching the shadow on the cheek. So we've got a loop but now it's a closed loop.

And this is what we're looking for this little patch of light and here. So again, you can see that's a little bit more dramatic than open loop. If you've got a very chiseled or square face, high cheekbones, this is going to help draw that out and it is probably A little bit more powerful than open loop. So you might want to use this with a male and use the open loop with a female. But each subject is slightly different. But let's have a look what that looks like in the actual studio.

Now at first glance, this doesn't look different to the open loop, all it's happened is we've taken the speed light, and we've literally just moved it maybe six, eight inches around the subject. And what that means is, we've essentially move this around, and that has then moved to shadow so it comes across and it really is that simple and adjustment to go from open loop to close the loop and obviously vice versa. So By moving that light around, we can see that the shadows lengthened across the face. And that's what created this closed loop. So now in this shot, all we've done is, we've just added a little bit of fill in our closed loop. And that has now softened this heart shadow that we're using with a speed light.

So again, like we mentioned in the previous lecture, you can use a hard speed light and still get some nice looks, if you want that little bit of a dramatic look at work. Some people were very sort of Angular features, you could soften this up with a softbox, or an umbrella on your main or in a key light. And that would just soften that shadow a little bit, it would still be the same type of lighting. But it would soften it would still have that loop, the shadow would just be a little bit softer. So let's just have a look at the Got your studio. So here's the lighting setup.

As you can see, all we've done is we've added this reflective umbrella. So we're shooting a flash into the umbrella as bouncing onto the subject. And that's going to give us the fill that we want on our subject. Now you can see I've got the standard a little bit higher on the Phil this time. And that's just going to create a little bit of a stronger shadow under the chin. And if I'd have had it lower, and I just want to encourage you sometimes it's not just about changing the main, sometimes changing the fill, and just create a little bit of drama and a little bit of interest in the height.

So I just wanted to throw that in there and show you that as well. So what that has done is just deepened the shadow under the chin. If I'd have dropped that down, that would have been much softer. So if it's male or female Want to just fill it a little bit more like that, and then you're going to get a little bit stronger shadow under the jaw line, and it's going to be a little bit more pronounced. But again, that's essentially the same technique. The only thing that changed between the open loop and the closed loop was the angle of the spotlight.

And then obviously, I've just thrown this little tip in on the umbrella to create a little bit more definition under the chin to show you how that also adds to the image and how just a simple adjustments with lights can really help. And good photography is about seeing light and moving light. So all these little things can make a huge difference to a simple image.