To create the these photos, I set the exposure on the camera to low to dim the lights and posed in front of a back background. Then I went to Adobe Photoshop and made the background even darker (as needed) using the curves feature. I learned that holding the light away from the background worked better than holding it close, which didn’t work at all.
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