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Warm Light, Cold Shadows: How Colored Gels Can Transform a Beauty Portrait Setup
There’s a version of a beauty portrait that most of us have shot a hundred times: soft main light, maybe a reflector underneath, clean background. Safe. Competent. Forgettable. For a long time, I thought the path to better beauty work ran almost entirely through retouching. Add more light in post, finesse the skin, call it done. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to understand that the most interesting thing you can do for your retouching workflow is to give yourself better raw material to start with.