Tag: portrait
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Quick and simple soft light for headshots
It’s a matter of personal taste: generally, when lighting people for portraits, men or women, I tend to prefer soft lightrather than harder, more dramatic settings. I have a simple, go-to scheme that I set up every time I want something soft in a pinch. To make it, I use two large softboxes (I own…
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Hard light for beauty?
It is often taught that soft light is the prime choice for beauty shots and to conceal skin flaws. Actually, the very opposite may be true, especially if combined with (again, counterintuitively) high-contrast post-processing.