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9Special Lighting Techniques

‘To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.’

Plato’s Republic

Specific lighting problems

This chapter is dedicated to special lighting problems that are more difficult to solve, requiring slightly different techniques to those covered so far or their extended application. As such, it consists mainly of tutorials that will introduce procedures that once understood can be applied elsewhere and added to your general armory of lighting tricks and techniques.

However, this chapter does not aim to cover exhaustively every ...

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