The way you set up your lighting and pose a subject can have a dramatic effect on the types of images that you get and the impression you present of a person. This is a skill of a great photographer, to not just take the same bland image of everyone but to add real character and personality to the portraits they take via the posing and lighting they choose to use.
With that in mind, you should check out this photo challenge called “Decoy” where six photographers were presented with the same subject, but they were given very different backstories. Have a look at the video.
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