Lighting is easily one of those things that can take your photographs from basic to pro instantly.
The popular belief is that you need expensive lighting, more than one flash/constant light to get the best-looking results.
In this blog post, I’ll be showing you how I’ve used only one flash or a combination of one flash and one constant light to achieve the ideal lighting for that shot.
By the end of this post, you’ll be nailing the single flash setup. Trust me.
For most of my commercial projects, I hire out studios. But for smaller projects and personal ones, I shoot at my home with the lights that I own.
The flash I use is Sonia VT-631 and the constant light is Godox SL60W.
If you’re interested in buying the props & gear that I use, visit my shop right here.
Let’s see the first shot
There’s a flash on the right, constant light on the left, and a whiteboard at the bottom.
On the surface, I have placed a white cartridge sheet. The colored sheets that you can see (green, blue, and purple) are A4 pastel sheets.
You can easily find them at any stationary store around you.
Remember to keep the ISO as low as possible. It can be tempting to just bump up the ISO to get a better lit picture but avoid doing this at all costs.
Turn and move your lights around, experiment, and find the sweet spot.
The basic thing is that you need a light or a white board/thermocol placed just opposite to your flash.
It will soften the shadows. You can brighten up and soften the shadows while editing as well. We will discuss the post-processing in a different post.
This picture below was shot in the same light setup.
Also Read: 5 Tips To Create A Setup For Product Photography At Home
Would you believe it if I told you this was shot in a single light setup?
There’s a flash on the right and a white board on the left to bounce the flash off. That’s it!
The rest was taken care of in post-processing.
Here are Christmas flatlays taken in the same light setup:
Also Read: How To Do Any Kind Of Color Grading In Lightroom
Quick tip! Don’t have a printed quote to go with your picture? Simply use any white sheet cut-out and add the quote later in post.
Search for your required quote on Pinterest and download it. Make sure the quote is written in black on a white background.
For example:
You can now place this quote on your empty white sheet using either Photoshop or mobile apps like Snapseed, PicsArt, etc.
How to do that?
In Photoshop and PicsArt, you have to change the blend mode of the quote picture to darken.
Also Read: How to texture shots in product photography
In Snapseed, use the double exposure tool to add the quote and erase out the part of the image that’s not needed.
That’s it for today. If you have any queries, feel free to comment down below!
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