Basic Lighting Setup for Fashion Photography on a White Background

Whoever says fashion photography photoshoots have to use extensive amounts of lighting equipment may want to take a look at the following video. While photographing model, Ulorin Vex, in his New York studio, professional photographer, Neil van Niekerk, kept things simple using just a backdrop and a beauty dish for a majority of the shoot. Go behind the scenes here:

The photo below was taken with a very basic lighting setup which included the aforementioned beauty dish.

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To eliminate some of the shadowing and to make the edges of Vex’s body appear to be more crisp, a softbox was later added to the equation.

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