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The king
Hiking in this beautiful region is like a present.Also standing at high elevation and looking to the king of Austria.The first snow the changing coloursand all the combination with the weather cond
Oasis
One of my favorite waterfalls I've photographed in recent years. deep in the backcountry of Vancouver Island lies this pristine oasis.
YOUNG MALE MALAYAN TIGER
These are a highly endangered species, and the rescue center has this young male tiger, which they hope will breed with their already existing female Malayan tiger.
BLACK LEOPARD
A new arrival at the rescue center. She was very friendly and very flirty, rolling about on her back and meowing, then staring at you as if she might be hungry. A magnificently beautiful animal
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You've got a second light low and camera right that is throwing conflicting shadows to your main light. That's giving you ugly shadows across the right side of her face.
Maybe you meant that light for fill or to broaden the effect of the main light.
To broaden the main light, you'd need to put both of the individual lights behind a common sheet of diffusion material.
If your intent was to fill in the shadows, an active (actual light) fill l should most safely be at the camera position. It can be right over the camera so that any shadows it throws fall out of sight behind the subject. If youi're using a passive fill (reflector), that can be to the opposite side of the main light so that it can catch light from the main light and throw it to the subject. By it's nature, a reflector won't be quite as bright as the main light.
For butterfly lighting (main light over the camera), it can be just below the camera.
Either way, it must not be so bright that it deforms the shadows cast by the main light.
Thanks Kirk for your critique...
and thanks for your advices, I can work with that.
To explain my lightsetup: I had an umbrella top right and the model holding a reflector to fill up the shadows from below.
And then I had a kickerlight from the left in the back.