Equipment

To show how different equipment can be used together I have used the website http://www.lightingdiagrams.com/Creator to show examples of this. The first diagram I created includes a backdrop and camera with a flash, two soft boxes and a beauty dish. I have placed two soft boxes onto the background to ensure that the background is completely lit up and will provide enough light to make sure that there will be no shadow. The beauty dish is there to distribute light towards the subject, giving it a wrapped and contrasted look and also bring out the features within the subject. This set up would be great to create a very high key image full of light, but would only work with the correct camera settings.
The second diagram includes a backdrop and camera with a flash, a large soft box, reflector and a snoot. I have included the large soft box to light up the background and have used a snoot against the reflector to reflect light onto the subject, which will give it a different effect and helps to achieve a broader light source. This would create an interesting high key image and if set up correctly and using the correct camera settings would be a successful set up to create successful images.

The last diagram I have created includes only a backdrop, camera with a flash and a beauty dish, which is included to give light to the subject and the image as well as to bring out the main subject features. The idea of this set up is to create a low key image, by including only one light source, this will create shadow and darkness behind and in the rest of the image, also by positioning the beauty dish only on the one side it will create shadow on the opposite side of the subject, which in my opinion will give off a good effect, as this shadow is intentional and not unwanted. I feel that this could also be a good and successful image if set up correctly and using correct camera settings and could also create some very effective images.