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Unplanned Lakeside Composite

The client decided after the shoot to place our studio portrait of Elena into the lakeside we shot last month and they…

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CDecide — “help me choose”The client decided after the shoot to place our studio portrait of Elena into the lakeside we…+

The client decided after the shoot to place our studio portrait of Elena into the lakeside we shot last month and they want the composite for a morning campaign call tomorrow. I'm worried the light direction and shadow will betray the composite. Tell me whether this can be made believable in time, which must be matched first — light angle, color temp, or ground contact shadow — and a quick shadow approach that will read real on-screen.

when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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Client insisted on placing the subject into the lakeside they chose after the shoot; the deadline is tight and I only have the studio frame.

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