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Clamshell lighting

Commonly used in beauty and fashion photography, clamshell lighting takes glamour lighting and softens it out further, creating clean, soft and flattering images.

The core of this technique is the use of two frontal lights (one key, one fill) to create a ‘clamshell’-looking setup,

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