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<p class="gutenify-section-f4ddfed0-f9aa-11ee-873e-bd49cd372e37">I asked a good friend, Deb Burgess, to pose for me in the studio, so I could experiment further with my relatively new optical spotlight. She agreed. I was looking for portraits that would be different, using the spotlight's various light modifiers to change how the light would fall, especially across the face. I also thought that I would render some of the images in black and white (and in some instances, toned). I shot Sheldon in a previous session, and the images were a success, overall. (I always have lots of "also-rans" that are OK, but nothing remarkable: successes are those that stand out.)</p>
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