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BrianO wrote:
As with all great artists, he knew that one way of lighting a subject wasn't always the right way for every subject.
Along those lines, notice how Vermeer got very different looks and moods from the same source. He used subject orientation and distance to the source for different effects.
You don't even have to light the same subject the same. Consider the photographs of classic beauties of the movies - Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe. They were photographed by different photographers using different lighting styles, often with very different results. Which one was the "right" way to light them? I'd answer all that produced interesting (and not always the most flattering) images.
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