I bought two tripod halogen lights yesterday, each tripod has two 500W halogen lights. Backdrop is a bed cover taped to the wall on one side and stuck in the doorway in the other in my small room. I had the two tripods in front of me diagonal at about 30 degree angle at each side. One pointing upwards, one at eye level. I ended up with 4 catchlights in each eye so I cloned out 3 from each eye. It didn't look as low key as I wanted so in PSP, I adjusted the light in levels and curves adjustments layers. I also attempted to dodge some areas by using another curves layer. At the end I added one very dark curves adjustments layer (by dragging the middle point down in the curves), I Inverted mask of the layer and I used a very soft brush at 30 opacity to darken the right side of the face (my left cheek) little bit more without touching the chicken (that sounds funny when I read it back). I also used the same layer to darken around the face and the chicken. Resized. I added a duplicate layer, applied a high pass sharpen and flattened at 70 opacity. I'm curious to know if anyone thinks I managed to get a successful low key look.
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