Lighting is everything in the studio.
Adjust ratios, squelch highlights, fill shadows as necessary.
David L. Brill, a retired National Geographic photographer who has an almost exclusive relationship with the Smithsonian for
photographing hominid skulls and bones invented a highly sophisticated lighting system. He shoots 4x5 and 8x10 using a few lights, and literally dozens of tiny mirrors on flexible stalks to
squelch highlights, fill shadows as he wishes. Nobody does it better.
None of the web displays of his LF chromes does justice to the originals, of course.
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