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Low-key lighting

If you’re keen for a home DIY still-life winter challenge, have a go at our Renaissance painting-inspired low-key lighting photo project! Low-key lighting works as it sounds. It’s a soft lighting scheme that retains dark tones and shadows, and is atmospheric and moody in appearance.

To achieve the low-key effect we used three candles, a table lamp and a bit of natural light. We shot in the

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