Clamshell Lighting Done Wrong (On Purpose): What Lindsay Adler's Bodybuilder Setup Taught Me About Muscle Definition

Clamshell Lighting Done Wrong (On Purpose): What Lindsay Adler's Bodybuilder Setup Taught Me About Muscle Definition

I keep a lighting journal. Every setup from every shoot gets a rough sketch, a note about the modifier, and a one-line summary of what the light was actually doing to the subject. I have notebooks going back twelve years. The reason I do it is simple: lighting decisions that feel obvious in the moment become invisible six months later, and you end up reinventing the same wheel on every job.