From the course: Lighting with LED Panels

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Multi-light setup

Multi-light setup

- So we looked at lighting with LEDs if you only had one light and some modifiers, such as a reflector, but what if you have a lot of lights to work with. How would I light something if I had six or seven LEDs. And I want you to see my thought process, as well as looking at what each of these individual lights can accomplish. So the first thing I wanna do, is this is for a head shot. And it's for say either a Linked In profile, or maybe they're a real estate agent and you just want some nice, even, pretty lighting. So my goal was to use all soft lights, I didn't use any focusing lights. I did use some softboxes because I wanted that soft fall off of the shadows. And I did use grids because I wanted to be able to control the light and have it land exactly where I wanted it to be. So that was some of my thinking. And the first thing I did, is I wanted to see how much light output I was getting from each of these lights. So, though we don't have to necessarily use a light meter when…

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