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studio lighting can be used in many
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forms of photography from fashion to
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e-commerce and even product photos and
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today we're here with Mark to go over
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the basics of three-point lighting now
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three-point lighting is the standard
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lighting method used in visual media
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including video film and photography so
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right now we have a three point setup
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and what we're going to do is we're
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going to deconstruct it for you today so
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you can see exactly what each light does
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now before we shut any of the lights off
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today the first thing we're going to do
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is set up an access line which is an
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imaginary line straight from your camera
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to the subject it's gonna give you a
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left and right to determine where to
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as its name implies the key light is the
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main and most important light that
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shines directly on the subject and so
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that you can see exactly what that looks
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we're going to shut off all of the other
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lights right now so now we have only the
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key light shining on mark and you can
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put the key light either on the left or
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the right side of the access but I like
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to put it on the broad side because it's
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a slimming and it's just an attractive
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look and what the broad side is is you
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can see where mark is in the frame we
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have this space there's a lot of space
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here that's the broad side and this
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space is the short side if you want you
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can also bring your light closer in
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towards the access and you can see
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that's giving him a little bit of a
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softer look here and then if you want
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more drama go ahead and pull your key
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light back into the side this is going
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to give you a really dramatic look to
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your portrait so as you can see
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ultimately the strength color and angle
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of the key light will determine the
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overall lighting design of your shot
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next is fill light which is also shining
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directly on the subject but it's the
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opposite side of the key light the fill
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light will help to balance and soften
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the shadows created by this key light so
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I'm going to go over here and turn the
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key light on so you can see that effect
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that it has on mark you can see how
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really brightens Marc's face so before
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when we have the shadow on this side of
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his face now we have a really nice
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last but not least we have the backlight
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and the backlight also known as the rim
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light is used to light the subject from
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behind so what I'm going to do right now
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is I'm going to turn off the key in the
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fill light so you can really see what
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that backlight is doing
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so you can see now what the backlight
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turned on that mark shoulders are
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separated from the background and he's
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got a nice even light back here there's
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another way that you can use the
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backlight and that's as a kicker so what
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we're gonna do is we're gonna go over
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here and we're going to move this
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backlight over to the side so now that
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we've moved the backlight into a kicker
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position you can still see that we have
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great separation between the background
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and his shoulders but we have a really
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nice highlight going on on his face
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right here we're going to turn our other
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lights back on right now so you can see
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the full final effect of the three-point
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lighting we have our fill light here and
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our key light and that's three-point
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lighting with Mark thank you so much for
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being a great sport today I hope you've
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learned something about the basics of
