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"“The most essential thing about my style was

working with shadows to design the face instead of

flooding it with light.”

- George Hurrell

Once I solve a lighting problem, I file the solu-

tion away under 'Things I have learned and
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won't likely use again.' Recently, I learned that
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that isn't true.

In retrospect, it should have tak- we can apply what we learn to sit-

en all this time to recognize what uations we will face in the future.

now seems so very obvious. Why Earlier this year, at a shoot in Pine-

should solving lighting problems be hurst, I realized that had to change.

any different than addressing any Solving lighting problems isn't any

other technical problem we face. Af- different than solving other techni-

ter all, the core of our NyghtVision cal problems.

Methodology is the repeatability of Why the sudden change in perspec-

ritual. tive? Well, as Akira and I discussed

Yet, every time we solve a lighting when she wanted to work, I knew

problem, we just move on. We hav- that the two bedrooms on the lower

en't ever really thought about how level would be difficult. It had been

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