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Using upgraded gear and lighting for indoor headshots

Using upgraded gear and lighting for indoor headshots

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Using upgraded gear and lighting for indoor headshots

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- So I'd be remiss if I taught a headshot class and I didn't include at least one lighting setup with a white background look to it. So that's what we are doing here in our advanced or elevated gear section for our indoor shoot. So you can see that I have everything that I need right here to create a headshot. So in this setup, I'm going to be using a background light, the constant Stella Pro 8000 lumen light, for the background. I'm putting a light on the background so that it's very, very white and we don't have any shadows casting from where the model's going to be sitting onto the backdrop. So that's why I like to light the backdrop. And then in front of our model, we're going to have something called the clamshell lighting setup. This is a really flattering lighting setup for any type of face. So that's going to be our Profoto B10. And on the Profoto B10, I have a medium-sized softbox. It's still going to give us that soft quality of light, and it is placed in a very optimal…

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