Two Lighting Setups, One Shoot: What This broncolor Tutorial Taught Me About Working Smarter with Beauty Portraits

Two Lighting Setups, One Shoot: What This broncolor Tutorial Taught Me About Working Smarter with Beauty Portraits

There’s a version of me from a few years back who would have watched a lighting tutorial like this and thought, “That’s a photographer thing, not a retoucher thing.” I used to believe my job started when the file landed in my inbox. What I’ve learned since then, mostly the hard way, is that understanding how an image was lit changes everything about how you retouch it. When I know where the shadows are supposed to fall, I don’t fight them.