THREE LIGHT SETUP

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I took this photo for a local auction where the public bids on hiring a chef, who will come to their home to cook a meal (thus the chef's knife and wine glass!). For location portraits, it is often beneficial to have a triangular pattern of lighting. One light should be in front of the subject slightly off-center, and two lights on either side of the subject, placed slightly to the rear.

The rear lights should be behind the subject, but placed so that a sliver of light illuminates both the left and right side of the subject's head. If you try this triangular lighting technique and find that the light is far too bright on the two sides of the subject's head, simply increase the frontal light, or decrease the rear light output.

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