Chapter Ten: 4-Light Sports Composite Setup

image

Lighting for Compositing

image

The Setup

This lighting setup, which is a variation of the sports look in Chapter 6, is designed to give you multiple light sources on your subject (which helps for believability when compositing), and the light gray background makes it easy to select your subject off the background.

image

Gear Guide

FRONT STROBE: 500-watt unit with 17′ beauty dish and 25° honeycomb grid

SIDE STROBES: ...

Get Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It: Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.