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3. Light from the viewer's left is conventional and is to be prefered.
I looked at paintings the Columbus Museum of Art a few years ago
precisly on this matter, and confirmed the overwhelming majority of
classical painters (1450-1900±) use light from the left, especially
when people are in the paintings.

Why emulate dead painters and the conventional - we are live photographers,
aren't we? There's no need to fossilize a lighting approach, conventional or
otherwise. "One size doesn't have to fit all" ;-)

Regards,

Lewis

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