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2.32 - "Needs Work" 

Jason insisted on eating an egg salad sandwich before he shaved off his beard - so we broke out the hot lights and got weird.

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You would be getting higher numbers but there's a highlight reduction on the forehead that looks strange and overall the whites need to be raised... Great concept though and nice composition, it's editing that's keeping your number down and that's easier to fix

Great point, and thank you. I hadn't even looked at this photo since it was taken in 2015 back when I used constant lights. Just checked the raw data and you are correct the highlights are low and whites at 0. Maybe I found it over exposed out of cam idk, but yeah probably over did it here.

Yeah I look back at old edits and realize I was scared of highlights. I always thought things were blown out that weren't