Strobist Photo Trade Secrets, Volume 2: Portrait Lighting Techniques

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JON SENIOR

Peter Pan

THIS IMAGE BY Jon Senior was an accident waiting to happen. Some experimentation with the model led to this wonderful pose. Then Jon set up three flashes: one for the rim light, one with a ½ CTO gel to warm it up (unmodified to get that clean shadow on the wall), and a third flash pointed—I’m not going to tell you. Why? During a test shot the third flash didn’t go off. One look and Jon knew this was the setup he needed to make the image soar. A couple more jump shots ...

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