From the course: Lighting with Flash: The Basics

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The ring as key light

The ring as key light

All right, so what we have done is we've switched over just a little bit while Ramona was still in sort of a glam mode, and we're still using this, but now we're using it as a key light and as the only light. So this is classic ring light. It's just a very classic, defined, you'd know it from a thousand yards away look and this is what this Orbis is designed to do. This is some way I rarely use it, but given that we had a little context and a little bright red background, we tried to match her lips up to the background a bit, it's worth taking a couple of minutes and making that ring light glam kind of a picture. So, we're going to do that real quick, and we're going to add a couple of lights and take about using a ring light in context with a couple of the other light to have that look, but also have some three-dimensionality and shape to whatever it is that you're shooting. I'm not sure that my power level is where I want it to be, but I am just going to do a quick test and then go…

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