Index
Sitemap
Every public page on LightSchemes, grouped by thread — 211 links across 6 sections. XML sitemap for crawlers.
Site hubs
Main entry points across the library, tools, and interactive studio.
8 links
Learn
Paths, guides, and interactive labs.
42 links
- Camera essentials lab
- All guides
- Name the pattern
- Softbox distance
- Beginner portrait lighting
- Strobist Lighting 101
- Strobist Lighting 103
- Product tabletop lighting
- Cinematic mixed light
- Speedlight on location
- Cinema & continuous light
- Natural light, in order
- Creative flash & camera craft
- Subtractive lighting: flags, cards and V-flats
- Hard light, one light: studio portraits
- Negative fill: flags and V-flats
- Your first softbox portrait
- Window light for portraits
- Reflector fill outdoors and in
- Beauty dish and clamshell
- Octabox soft light for portraits
- Stripbox edge and rim light
- Umbrella as your first modifier
- Perspective: why distance draws the face, not the lens
- Classic face-light patterns
- Scrim softening for daylight
- Snoot spotlight control
- Grid spill control on soft sources
- Tabletop product lighting fundamentals
- Black cards on glossy product
- Mixed Kelvin: practicals and window
- Color gel backgrounds
- Off-camera speedlight basics
- Fresnel light for cinematic portraits
- High-speed sync in daylight
- Light tent and jewelry macro
- Optical spot and gobo patterns
- Video projector as a light source
- ND filters and daylight exposure
- Polarizer: glare, sky, and product reflections
- Mist and diffusion filters on the lens
- Prism, star, and streak filters
Lighting terms
Patterns, light roles, and quality — the vocabulary, shown on our own frames.
17 links
Tools
Modifiers, sources, control, color, and surfaces.
37 links
- Acrylic / glass base
- Beauty dish
- Black card (product)
- Color gel
- Flag / cutter
- Foam board
- Fresnel
- Grid
- Haze / atmosphere
- High-speed sync
- Lantern
- LED panel
- Light tent
- Mirror (bounce / redirect)
- Mirror card
- Mixed Kelvin
- Octabox
- Optical spot / gobo
- Parabolic softbox
- Phone flashlight
- Phone screen
- Practical lamp
- Reflector
- Ring flash
- Scrim / diffusion
- Snoot
- Softbox
- Speedlight
- Stripbox
- Strobe
- Torch / flashlight
- Tube light
- Umbrella
- V-flat
- Video projector
- Wet ground reflection
- Window / sun
Lighting setups
Published setups with hero, diagram, gear plan, and variations.
104 links
- Acrylic Base Product Reflection
- Athlete Rim & Grid
- Automotive Light Painting
- Beach Silver Reflector Fashion
- Beauty Dish Overhead Food Flat Lay
- Bi-Color Panel Night Interior Portrait
- Black Card Glossy Packaging
- Black Card Transparent Bottle Control
- Black Flag Portrait Control
- Butterfly Beauty Dish Portrait
- China Ball Overhead Interview Fill
- Cinematic Outdoor Night
- Cinematic Practical Interior Portrait
- Clamshell Beauty
- Colored Gel Background Portrait
- Continuous Hair Light Interview
- Cutter Slash Light Cinematic Face
- Dramatic Portrait
- Dreamy Backlit Window
- Dual Stripbox Product Hero
- Film Noir Fresnel
- Food Window Daylight
- Four-Light Flagged Product Hero
- Fresnel Spotlight Product Hero
- Fresnel Venetian Blinds Portrait
- Golden Sun Reflector Portrait
- Gridded Softbox Athlete Portrait
- Hand Mirror Sun Fill Portrait
- Handheld Scrim Sun Portrait
- Haze Volumetric Fresnel Beam Portrait
- High-Speed Sync Sunset Portrait
- HSS Daylight Wide-Aperture Fashion
- HSS Hard-Sun Action Portrait
- Jewelry Macro Bounce Tent
- Lantern Group Small Room
- Lantern Overhead Living Room Portrait
- Large Scrim Food Table Daylight
- LED Panel Interview Portrait
- LED Panel Tabletop Product
- Light Tent Cosmetic Jar
- Light Tent Silver Ring Jewelry
- Mirror Bounce Sun Fashion
- Mirror Card Jewelry Sparkle Macro
- Mirror Card Watch Sparkle Macro
- Mirror Product Reflection Setup
- Octabox Corporate Headshot
- Octabox Soft Key Skincare Product
- Octabox Turned-Head Fashion Portrait
- On-Axis Soft Headshot
- On-Axis Soft Key Character Portrait
- On-Camera Direct Flash Fashion
- One-Umbrella Beginner Portrait
- Opposing Gel Rim Fashion Portrait
- Overhead Lantern Dining Food
- Overhead Scrim Daylight Portrait
- Parabolic Full-Length Fashion
- Parabolic Soft Fashion Portrait
- Phone Flashlight Raking Texture Packaging
- Practical Lamp Product Still Life
- Projector Gobo Fashion
- Projector Texture Product Background
- Reflective Umbrella Budget Portrait
- Rembrandt Window Portrait
- RGB Tube Product Background Wash
- Ring Flash Beauty Portrait
- Ring Flash Cosmetic Macro
- Ring Flash Flat Lay Product
- Screen Glow Practical Portrait
- Short Light Turned Head Portrait
- Showroom Stripbox Automotive Hero
- Side Flagged Food Texture Hero
- Soft Beauty Light Portrait
- Soft Panel Window Interior Balance
- Softbox Distance Comparison Portrait
- Softbox Grid Spill Control Portrait
- Speedlight Bounce Event Portrait
- Speedlight Bounce Reflector Fill Event
- Speedlight Ceiling Bounce Reception Portrait
- Speedlight Gridded Editorial Portrait
- Speedlight Gridded Rim Event Portrait
- Speedlight Shoot-Through Umbrella Product
- Speedlight Wall Bounce Corridor Portrait
- Split Light Hard Portrait
- Stripbox Edge Bottle Product
- Strobe Fill Interior Window View
- Strobe Freeze Product Splash
- Strobe One-Light Softbox Headshot
- Three-Light Product Hero
- Tube Light Neon Room
- Tube Rim Desk Lamp Portrait
- Tungsten Fresnel Motivated Interview
- Twilight Real-Estate Blend
- Underlight Low Angle Portrait
- V-Flat Negative Fill Fashion
- Video Projector Portrait — Image Key
- Warm Practical Cool Window Portrait
- Wet Pavement Automotive Night
- Wet Street Reflection Night Portrait
- White Foam Board Product Fill
- Window Backlit Reflector Portrait
- Window Black Negative Fill Portrait
- Window Side Bakery Food Hero
- Window White Bounce Portrait
- Window-Lit Interior Ambient
Relight scenes
Catalog frames with live light-level controls, each linked to its setup.
3 links