Beauty Gel Lighting shoot Techniques

Definitions
Key Light- The main light used to light the subject
Beauty dish- A circular dish which is flexible- if its white its more "diffusive" effect, the silver dish is more directional lighting
Diffusion sock- The cover placed on the beauty dish, makes the lighting more diffused (more even)
Honey comb (grid)- Something put over the light to control the direction of the light- restricting the direction of the light
Fill Light- The lighting placed under the beauty light, which fills in the shadows.
Back light- clip light- to separate the subject from the background, its behind the model and lights up parts such as the hair.
Lighting diagram-

This diagram shows how the studio will be set up within this technique because we will have a beauty dish tilted down on the subject, there will be a key light by the camera, with a diffusion sock on top of it, then at the back there will be back lights with gels on top of them to fill the background (using a Lens diffuser).

This is an example of this technique because you can see the use of the gels in the lights in the background.

This is an example of this technique because you can see the use of different coloured gels. However, unlike in the diagram I have drawn below, the back-lights would have been move around and closer to the subject, this is because, our image resulted in the colouring being shown on just the hair, however, as you can see, the colouring is across her face, the photographer could have done this by using a diffuse lens- this helps almost blur the colours across the frame.

The camera settings for this shoot was..
Back lights- f/11
Key light- f/8.8
Fill light- f/8.5

This is a drawn sketch of the layout in the studio for this technique- showing how we had two back-lights both angled to the subject, each with a different colour gels on, then we had our subjects positioned where the light from key back-light would hit them on the side of the head. Above our cameras we had the key light, this is the most important light in this set up because it controls the final lighting, then under our camera, we had a fill light, the purpose of this is to make the subject brighter, it also gives the subject definition through shadowing around the facial area- ie. the chin,  without this light, the subject may become too dark and the technique wouldn't have the same effect.