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Accentuating edges with rim lights

Accentuating edges with rim lights

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Accentuating edges with rim lights

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- [Instructor] Rim lighting or backlighting is a studio technique to accentuate the edges of a subject. I've got ActiveShade running, showing the camera view. And we see that the subject looks kind of flat. These edges here are not being illuminated, so we're not getting a very dramatic composition that highlights the contours of the object. To fix that, we'll add a couple of lights behind the drone model to make it stand out from the background and look more interesting. To see the effect of our rim lights, let's hide the cyclorama backdrop object temporarily. I'll minimize ActiveShade, open up the Layer Explorer, and turn the visibility for the backdrop layer off. And then hide the Layer Explorer again, and bring ActiveShade back. And we see the illumination on the drone model from the key light only. So that we can isolate the lighting effect and see only the rim lights, let's turn that key light off, select it, go over to…

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