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  • Nicolas

    Administrator
    2025-02-14 at 12:33 pm

    Hi @bevrenosoglugmail-com

    What a lovely shot, the strong directional snoot light works great for these translucent babies.

    One comment, and this is really up to you as an artist whether you want to change anything, because the photo is lovely as it is:

    On the edges of your snoot beam, we can see other babies, which haven’t received much snoot light, so they’re visible, but not fully lit.

    If it was my photo, I’d prefer to have them invisible, for more contrast.

    2 ways you can go about it, if you wanted to do that:

    1/ in the field: to avoid this progressive decrease of light at the snoot’s edge, try and find the snoot-to-subject distance at which the edge of the snoot beam is crispy sharp. It’s a matter of bringing the snoot a little closer or further away.

    2/ In post-processing: boost your contrast in post. That might suffice, or you can always do a radial mask, invert it and reduce exposure.