5 Light Old Hollywood Style Glamour Setup

One of the themes I love to explore over and over again is “vintage modern” — meaning I love to take elements from the past and infuse them with a modern twist.

For this shoot however I really just went all in with the vintage look.

The model for this shoot actually was the inspiration as she is a professional burlesque/pinup model and just has that “vintage style” look to her.

Here’s a break down of the lighting:

💡 5 Light setup:

1 - Main light: Magnum Reflector with light #5 in paramount position
2 - Background light with 20 degree grid
3 - 1x4’’ strip softbox - illuminating her hair
4 - 1x4’’ strip softbox - illuminating her hair
5 - Beauty dish + grid - fill in the shadows on the face

Final image: 10:10

Now you can definitely get away with using less lights than I did here, but as you can see in the video, I built the scene light by light to get to my final desired look using a Magnum reflector as my main light which helped create that high contrast look but can be a bit more flatting on the skin.

You can get some great results with even just a single light (shameless plug, checkout my class 👉One Light Artistry: https://lindsayadler.photo/onelight) with shadows and a hard light source.

Post Processing:

I wound up turning the photo black and white from the original (4:42) and did my usual bit of ‘finessing’ the photos by cleaning up stray hairs and minor retouching. You can see the before/after at 7:03.

👇 So what did you think? Did I nail that "modern vintage" look? Is this a style that you think you'd try? Drop a comment below and let me know!

🔥 If you're interested in more setups like this you'll definitely want to check out my Old Hollywood Lighting Recipe Guide with over 20+ lighting setups. http://lindsayadler.photo/oldhollywood.

⚙️ Camera Settings:
✅ 24-105 @ 65mm
✅ 1/200th
✅ F/8
✅ ISO 400
📸 Gear:

✅ Canon EOS R5: https://adorama.rfvk.net/JxzdE (photos shot using a pre-production model)
✅ Canon RF 24-105mm 4.0: https://adorama.rfvk.net/q74XY
✅ Profoto D2: https://adorama.rfvk.net/qvB7y
✅ Profoto Magnum Reflector: https://adorama.rfvk.net/mvmbO
✅ Profoto Beauty Dish + Grid: https://adorama.rfvk.net/627BG
✅ Profoto 1x4' Strip Softbox: https://adorama.rfvk.net/4AdQn
✅ Profoto 20 Degree Grid: https://adorama.rfvk.net/nvn0A
✅ Tether Tools tether cable: https://adorama.rfvk.net/avr5q
✅ Savage Seamless Fashion Gray background: https://adorama.rfvk.net/9ZeX3

🔥 Learn creative one light techniques with my class One Light Artistry: https://lindsayadler.photo/onelight

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