The Die Is Cast

Gone is the day that the movie moguls taught actors the importance of posing all day for a photograph.

—George Hurrell

We have now reached the conclusion of this chapter’s main focus, creating classic glamour lighting using Photoshop (Figures 4.16a and 4.16b). In the next chapter, you will convert the newly lit Stardust image into a continuous-tone black-and-white photograph that has the look and feel of an image captured with film.

Figure 4.16a. The original capture.

Figure 4.16b. The final image.

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