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Macro and the angle of light

Macro and the angle of light - Photoshop Tutorial

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Macro and the angle of light

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So, in the last movie, we switched from the diffuse, soft, even, wrap-around lighting that we've used for the whole course, to a shaft of direct light like you might find streaming through an open window in your house. As you saw, it created a lot more drama on the surface of the flower. We had real shadows and a lot of nice highlights. And as I moved down here, I got some nice backlighting effects, and some cool rim lights on the stamens, and things like that. And, I hope you've had a chance to play with that sort of thing. I hope also that while you were doing that, you played with some other alternatives. Look what's happened here. I've moved basically 90 degrees. I've come around to the side, and I'm finding something very different. I've got all this nice side lighting on the flower. You can probably see in here there is highlighting up in here. There is shadow down in here. I've got a lot of texture on the surface of the flower. Let me grab a quick shot for you. I framed up a…

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