LIGHTING COOKBOOK 2.0
NOTE: In this setup at a hair salon, the goal was to have the activity at hand—hairdressing—be going on unobtrusively in the background. An active background is always a nice touch as long as you take steps to make sure it doesn’t attract too much attention. This setup probably would’ve worked okay with just natural white light in the salon behind her, but I think it would’ve put the background on too much of an even level with the subject-the person we always want to notice first and foremost. So to draw a more stark contrast between the subject and background and add a healthy coat of color for this interview, we went with a bold blue light setup on the people in the background and a more natural warm white light on our ...
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