4 Sep
2006
Strobist: Reverse Engineering Other Shooters' Light:
Over at Strobist, the lighting experts are talking about how to figure out what sort of lighting another photographer used – simply by looking at the photo.
Of course, you're never going to be 100% accurate – but you should manage to get enough of a solid idea of how to duplicate the lighting used for your own purposes.
I read somewhere, about a certain skilled painter trying to duplicate the Old masters – not to sell them as forgeries, but to learn their techniques. There's no reason that we, as photographers, can't do the same sort of thing…
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