Lighting techniques and effects
I have found a photographer called Paul Freeman who uses really nice lighting and editing techniques to bring a certain mood to his images. He seems to desaturate the image but leave the high exposed areas of the image, in colour. Which i love the effect of and hope to try some of these techniques in my final shots.
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