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by Dave Newman Published 01/12/2013

Accent Lights: a random, odd selection of small 150-250 watt accent lights were used, two and three at a time, to provide the excitement and speculars in this style of portraiture. Most often these small accent lights are placed in the rear quadrant of the subject's lighting area. All accent lights are used at one full stop above whatever is selected as your keylight setting. These accent lights are often feathered away from the subject while avoiding the camera lens flare. Here is an example of the value of a good lens shade (but, tape, cardboard gobo, tubing, etc. might be necessary to protect the lens from the possibility of flare in the diagram shown. Shooting with several accent lights without a lens shade is asking for destructive lens flare. Note: when using Edge-Light as accent lighting, I find it best to remove the interior light-diffusing baffles, thus gaining a greater degree of exciting, controllable specular highlights.

Final Sauces

As a finale and post production of my files, and for the artistic skin treatment and overall enhancement, I add a very special dose of sauce: Topaz, Clean III set at Skin Even with a later final touch of a favourite softener, Swift-Skin. After each application of these enhancements a carefully monitored use of PhotoShop's history brush used at 30% over eyes and other details can restore sharpness into important details of the image while allowing smoothness to enhance the skin.

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