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Lighting experiments

The photographer must learn how to direct and control the lighting to get the desired results. In general, a good image has a gradation of light from high bright to deep shadow without large jumps in values. To clarify this, put . A person facing a window so that the light falls on his entire face. You notice that the person's forehead is lit evenly, and there are no average light values ​​on it, that is, there are no light shadows
Which gives a roundness and natural appearance.
Move the person away from the window a few feet (a foot is about 30 centimeters), and notice how the lighting becomes less intense, which gives a pleasant feeling of roundness and terrain resulting from the prominence of the average light values.

Move the person's head away from the window a little, and look at him through the camera, and notice the gradation of values, and how the shadow goes from light to deep, and this is a good thing, but the shadow in its deeper part is very black and devoid of details. Here reflected light must be used to illuminate the shadow area, or to reduce its intensity.
Hold the reflector about a meter away from the shaded side of the face, and notice how the shadows soften. Now start by bringing the reflector closer to the person, and notice how the closer you get to it, the more the amount of reflected light increases, and the intensity of the shadows on the face diminishes, until you reach a point where these shadows become appropriate to give the face roundness and naturalness with gradation and balance between shadow and light. This point is the appropriate position to focus the reflector.
If we continue the experiment, and continue to bring the reflector closer to the person, you will notice that starting from a certain point, the amount of light reflected on the face becomes strong and is almost equivalent to direct light.
This situation eliminates the details again, and gives a bad picture.