Photography Tips & Tricks
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The more your model has good skin, the more you can move your key light to the side and use a silver reflector on the fill side to get a pop and separation from the background....
Also backlights + gobos can do wonders.... gobos are additional light stands with black cards on them placed between the camera and the lights to block the near-inevitable flare that happens when you do a strong backlight... I've worked on white background stuff with 7 or 8 lights and 4 gobos to get a really nice punchy image...
white background does NOT have to equal boring light... but often does.... NOTE that some art directors will jump a bit if you give them an image with a white background that has really nice edge lighting.. it may overwhelm the rest of the page's "harmony".... that happened to me once, as the client saw a boring comp, AD hired me to make it more interesting, then client saw it and said "that's not like the comp" so we had to tone it back down...