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Find the Light First: A Working Photographer's Breakdown of Indoor Lighting Strategy
There is a question I get from assistants and newer photographers on set more than any other: “Where do you want the light?” They mean well, but the question is backwards. You don’t decide where you want the light and then manufacture it from scratch every time. You learn to read what’s already in the room, subtract what’s hurting you, and build from what’s left. That’s a discipline, not an instinct, and it took me years of commercial work to internalize it.