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Lighting Tip – The Power of Accent Lights

A few loyal readers have sent me emails asking how I lit this image. Originally posted in an article about interpretation of histograms, this kind of lighting set up is typical in lighting workshops that I host. Although I feel that this kind of thing is best seen and experienced hands-on, here is my best quick and to the point description of how this particular image was lit. The main light is to camera right. It is a 3′ x 4′ softbox that positioned very close to the model...

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Keeping it Simple

A friend asked me to take a couple of portraits for her sporting a new hair style. Not next week or next month but now. Hey you have a camera, you take a lot of pictures, how hard can it be? She needed them for something or another, I forget. At first I started to make excuses about the location (her living room), I don’t have any of the stuff I need, the light is no good, blah, blah, etc. When I realized that she was not going to...