Shallow Depth of Field With Studio Lighting

Today we had a huge shoot in the studio with four photographers and two helping out. Rio let me borrow his 85mm 1.2 lens to get some headshots, and here I’ll show you our lighting setup and go over a few tricks for opening up our aperture. You don’t want lights that put out a lot of Light, we lowered them down to minimum power to open up more. Bringing the ISO down to 50 will give you another stop, and you can also use a ND Density filter. We’re using a 50inch softbox as our main light and a gridded softbox for fill. Here’s my favorite shot!

Today we had a huge shoot in the studio with four photographers and two helping out. Rio let me borrow his 85mm 1.2 lens to get some headshots, and here I’ll show you our lighting setup and go over a few tricks for opening up our aperture. You don’t want lights that put out a lot of Light, we lowered them down to minimum power to open up more. Bringing the ISO down to 50 will give you another stop, and you can also use a ND Density filter. We’re using a 50inch softbox as our main light and a gridded softbox for fill. Here’s my favorite shot!