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Plan Your Studio Shots Before You Ever Plug In a Light: A Guide to Virtual Lighting Tools
I keep a lighting journal. Every setup from every shoot gets a sketch - light positions, modifiers, approximate power ratios, what worked, what didn’t. It took me years to build that reference library, and it cost me real money in wasted studio time and blown test shots along the way. When I was starting out, the only way to understand what a beauty dish actually does differently from a softbox was to rent both, set them up, fire them, and compare.