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Creating an edgier look with the key light

Creating an edgier look with the key light

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Creating an edgier look with the key light

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All right, so I want to make this light a little edgier, and I want to make this light a little safer. All right, so drape like you are going to drape. I want to really try and aim this one to you in a cool way. So this light is kind of hardish key light. I can make this a gridded light, and we may do that in just a minute. In fact, I definitely want to do that. I want to come right up to the edge of where my frame is going to be. All right, are you comfy? So get there. All right, the chair, spring grabbing you in the back of the chair? Ramona: Yeah. David: They do that to keep you awake. All right, so look towards me like you are going to look towards me, and I'm going to walk this light around. So I'm giving you a little more angle on your face. I like that; don't change that. Now, I'm hitting her face, but this light is also lighting her legs as they come down. I can take the light off of her legs and keep it on her face, as long as I don't move her from this position, by aiming it…

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