Introducing Accent Lighting into Your Portraits – Tuts+ Premium

We have another Photo Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members today. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to add accent lights to your portraits. Learn more after the jump!

Your have your key light set up, that big light that provides most of your illumination. You even have a fill light to eliminate some shadows. Now it’s time to add accent lights, those small touches that make a photo really pop. I’m here to so you how. In today’s tutorial, we’ll take a look at accent lights in the headshot/studio setting. We’ll use a simple two-light set up to make an otherwise standard portrait come to life.

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