Hair Light 101. Everything you need to know about hairlights.

Hairlight 101

Part of making a refined image in the studio is lighting your subject to preserve details in their hair or operate them from the background. In today’s video, I will teach you everything you need to know about hair lights. Including which modifiers to use, where and how to mount them plus how bright your lights should be.

Equipment used:

Elinchrom Rotalux Stripbox 35x90cm (EL26644) https://amzn.to/3sI2dCV

Elinchrom Indirect Litemotiv Strip Softbox 33x175cm (EL28003) https://amzn.to/36lC0jM

Photek SoftLighter Umbrella with Removable 8mm Shaft (46 in.) https://amzn.to/3a784Jv

Profoto 254710 RFi 1 x 6-FEET (30×180 cm) Softbox (Black) https://amzn.to/2Ymo6JS

Matthews Junior Boom: https://amzn.to/2ZBQEBz
Studio Titan STA 06-200: https://studiotitanamerica.com/collections/catalogue/products/sta-06-200

Music: Evolution by Bensound http://bensound.com/

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