Today I found this cool app called Strobox it allows you to create your very own lighting diagrams using your iPhone, and the best part is it’s absolutely free of charge !
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After my previous entries: “Portrait setup examples” and “Basic portrait lighting diagrams” I decided to continue and today I want to share some basic portrait lighting setups with you. I found them pretty useful and you won’t need a lot of studio equipment, just some basic strobist stuff.

Figure 1

Basics of Portrait Lighting

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Today I want to share some basic portrait setups. These setups don’t require expensive equipment or fancy techniques. All you need is a softbox or umbrella, fill cards, and some strobes.

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Not long ago I bought a new flash Nikon SB-600 and a pack of color gels. I surfed the net for a solution how to mount gels on a flash, found some ways but my gels was too big for DIY mounting racks I found, so then I saw an article “DIY 580ex color gels printing diagram“, it inspired me to make a printing diagram for my flash. I spend some time measuring my flash head and draw a sketch in Illustrator. Then I printed it and tried to mount on my flash, it fits perfectly.

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Scheme #1

Original white backgroung, resulting appearence light grey
1. Two superpose softboxes on the left. Value F8 @ ISO 100
2. One light with a diffuser to cut the subject shadow on the backgroung
3. Hairlight on top
3. Silver reflector near subject

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Professional Snapshots has provided a great flash feature where you can make your own photo set, just drag and drop the components you used and place on the field, after your work is done you can save the set to a .jpg image.

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