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Best location for window light reflector

Since we generally use a reflector to bounce light into the shadow side of our subject's face, you might think that with window light you'd put the reflector on the shadow side of your subject's face.

You can do that, but with window-light portraits, try this technique: bounce the light from the camera position, near the window, above your head, bouncing the window light down onto the dark side of your subject's face to open up those shadow areas.

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