Via justin brown primal video on youtube.
Postiion of lighting to stop shadows on wall.
Avoid placing your lighting directly above you as this can cause some dark and distracting shadows that draw attention away from your face.
Overhead lighting can cast shadows on your face if you must go with an overhead light choose a longer horizontal fixture instead of one with one single bulb to help fully illuminate your.
As the shadow edges become less visible and the overall shadow more blurry with softer light you could use softer light.
Diffuse the light minimize shadows by diffusing or spreading out the light.
There are two potential problems with this.
If possible try to position your leds behind a lip in order to hide the led light source.
Be careful of the floor surface that the lights are going to fall on.
Diffuse light by using lighting umbrellas and reflectors or by placing a soft box around each of your lamps.
Change your lighting style position.
Each light source creates one shadow per object.
More light sources more shadows.
A myth about lighting and shadows is that you can make them go away using more light sources this isn t true.
By increasing the range of a light source you decrease its strength.
Straight on lighting is best especially if you have a window with natural light on your side to fill out your shadows.
In order to do this you d either have to use a bigger modifier to increase the size of the light source or move the source in closer.
You can fill in shadows with an extra light source like the fill light a photographer might use.
The basics of shadows.
Try to get the shadows to go downward butterfly lighting and minimize the shadow that reaches the wall.