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son - I am photographing is from the strobes, the more difficult
achieving that becomes. In fact, I could well make that problem
worse. How? I could end up with three “zones” of consistency

- one near the windows, one near my lights, and the third in
between. That would cause all manner of problems. The advan-
tage of using Fresnel technology is that it is designed to keep
light more cohesive over time and distance,

 The bad news about Fresnel technology is that unless you
understand how that technology diffuses light, you can cre-
ate more problems than you will solve. Obviously, I could have
used more traditional soft boxes which I had with me, however,
they wouldn’t give me the effect I wanted. (See the diagram on

page 154 for more detail)

As I watched her walk

towards me, looking

more like a starlet from the

1930s than a contemporary

woman, it was as though I

had been taken back in to a

Bogart-Bacall movie..

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