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Looking at anti-shine options for a natural looking portrait

Looking at anti-shine options for a natural looking portrait

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Looking at anti-shine options for a natural looking portrait

- There's a lot of lighting that goes into one of these Lynda sets. It looks like a pretty simple set, but it's... There's actually a lot of lighting complexity here. I've got lights lighting my face. I've got this nice hair light back here, this nice back light. You can see there are these nice splashes on the wall here which serve to frame me when I stand in this particular spot. There's a lot of time and effort that goes into this. This is the kind of thing you do when you're lighting a shoot and there are a lot of problems they have to solve to get the light even, to get the look that they want. I wear glasses, that doesn't help anything. So there are lights that are set up to solve one problem that another light is creating. And that's how it's going to be when you light your own sets whether you're using strobes or continuous light. There's one problem that you can't see right now that has been solved that was not solved with lighting. It was solved with a bottle, or a squeeze…

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