Vivid colors lighting setup

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The hard light makes the vivid colors appear, and gives some extra punchiness to the photo.

Here’s a lighting setup  from Morgan Klang that gives us crisp vivid colors. The key light is from a strobe with just a tight reflector on. That gives a punchy and distinct light and a shadow on the background. Then there is a softer fill light from a shoot through umbrella. By not having a dedicated strobe on the background, the shadow will be more prominent and add that extra crispiness to the photo.

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One Response to “Vivid colors lighting setup”

  1. Sam November 8th, 2012 at 8:25 am

    Honestly, the lighting diagram looks wrong to me.
    If the fill light was positioned like that, shouldn’t there be a soft shadow from fill on the background?
    And the shadows in the picture look like the fill light was more or less 90° to the camera, not 45° as shown in the diagram?
    Or am I mistaken??

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