Lighting Madness (Patreon)

In order to light that particular Promo Movie Poster I had three different light sources to get the pink/blue/orange/yellow fade going on. So for everybody's sanity, I made a diagram! I wont put this in the $5 Tutorial reward because it's such a small post, but consider this a tease of sorts for what you're missing out on over there.

Anyway, tangents aside....

Three different light sources here. My (relatively warm toned) LED lamp, a cool toned cellphone flashlight, and my external flash going off at around 1/128.

All of these lights are reflecting off another surface before entering the fame for the photograph (hence soft light). To understand that, you can see in the second image that Wonder Woman has a strong (hard) shadow behind her. In order to eliminate it, refracting (reflecting) light off of another surface diminishes the strength of the light/shadow.

Now that that's out of the way, I did it twice on either side of her. On her left a warm tone reflecting from behind, and a cooled tone reflecting from the front of the subject. Additionally, the dulled external flash illuminates a residual light (this was reflecting off my white ceiling). Ultimately that was still the strongest light in the room, so I still ended up with a shadow of her sword in the end, but significantly better than just shooting with a light straight at her! :P

I hope this made sense.... Feel free to ask questions if you have them :P