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Dealing with nose shadows

Dealing with nose shadows

From the course: Pro Video Tips

Dealing with nose shadows

- Now I want to talk about another issue that comes up from time to time. And that's the size of people's noses. Again, these appearance issues are very important because sometimes people are very self-conscious. And what I find is that when people are self-conscious being on camera, they aren't paying attention to whatever it is that I'm talking to them about, be it their company or some other type of interview for a documentary. I want my subjects not at all worried about how they look on camera. So if I do my job correctly, when I'm done, almost always people look better than they do in real life. And that makes for better content almost every single time. So let's talk about, first off, what to do wrong, and then we'll talk about how to correct it. So this is an improperly lit nose. If I wanted to diminish the profile of somebody's nose there's two big things that I'm not going to do. One of the first things is that I don't want to cast a very large nose shadow. So if I have Cory…

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