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(upbeat happy music) - Hi, I'm Douglas Kirkland and I'd like to welcome you to On Photography. Today, I want to show you something about studio lighting. Here's a picture that I did of Jessica Alba. Comparatively simple, they wanted almost a cosmetic look and I'll show you how we do that. What I'm going to be doing is showing you different types of lighting we use and how and why we use them. We work predominantly with soft boxes, a lot of soft boxes, but we also use spotlights and they all go through the strobe light. We have enormous control and we can repeat it. Yes, yes, I like what you started to do there, that's great. It's almost like a wonderful dance together when you come to this point. We're most concerned with what's on Courtney and all the other is just ambiance. Now what we're doing here is we got the same picture, but with gray light by just unplugging the back lights. So now we have three lights, key, fill, and spotlight in the background, that's it, that's what's doing this and watch what you get. See the effect? You have this nice vignette feeling, it's very enhancing. What happens is it brings your eye into the center. I love working in the studio. All the elements, whether it's lighting, or it's music, a fan in the hair as you see here, all these elements, they all help make the image. So I hope you've enjoyed being part of our process today and I hope you get something that helps your photography and carries you to a new place.