The Lie Your Light Source Is Telling: A Compositor's Guide to Matching Light in Photoshop

The Composite That Still Haunts Me My first published piece had a shadow pointing the wrong direction. The subject was lit from camera left, but her shadow fell to the left too. Physically impossible. I stared at it for years afterward, waiting for someone to call it out. Nobody ever did, which is somehow worse. It taught me that audiences feel bad light before they see it. They don’t point at a composite and say “the shadow angle is 15 degrees off.