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The light on this series was a fair bit harscher than what I normally use to be complete.
It's something I've been playing with for some sessions and decided to do it a bit more over the top for this one.
PERSONALLY I like the more gritty light but that's 100% personal of course.
I don't know what you mean with quite a come down, sometimes pose and expression is way more important than having one shadow correct, for number one especially the pose and position of the model is the reason I love that shot, light is less "perfect" than on 2-3 indeed but the pose is much stronger, because they were shot during one of the basic workshops I teach I don't have the time to reshoot the same pose to get the light 100% correct.
Trust me, for commercial work I would 
In the essence light is only a tool to get a photo, in the end the photo has to work on many different levels, but you are right I love it when the technique is 100% ok (or as good as one can get) but sometimes, I just don't care if everything else is working for me......
Hope that does make sense ?
Remember I don't say never take care of your lights, in my opinion it's very important to always try to get perfect lights, but I will say that you should not be only obsessed by light....
Edited on Jul 05, 2009 at 10:34 AM · View previous versions
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