The 3 point lighting system consists of 3 flash heads with different covers allocated to them, there are 2 soft boxes (1 with a grid) and 1 snoot. The simple soft box is a rectangular cover which is attached to the flash heads in order to direct light to the subject, the soft box with a grid is used to distribute light evenly and the snoot is a cone-like cover for the flash heads. Furthermore, each of the 3 lights are given used for different purposes, 1 is a key light, another is the fill light and the final one is the hair line light. The key light is the main flash head used to light the subject(s), the fill light is used to remove shadow from the subject(s) and the hair line light is used at the back of the subject(s) to separate the subject(s) from the backdrop. The 3 point lighting system uses a 3-1 lighting ratio, the key light is 3 times as powerful than the other 2 lights, the ratio is 5-3-1.5 (5-Key Light, 3-Fill Light and 1.5 Hair Line Light). On the back of each of the flash heads there are buttons, these buttons are used to alter the intensity of the spurt of flash.
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